That sentence is straight from NASA. LOL! Come on, y'all, this isn't rocket-science!

I would and have picked the iPhone. You can get started without paying anything if you're already a Mac user. You only need to pay the $99 to join their iPhone Developer Program when you want to build for a hardware device instead of the iPhone simulator and to submit to the App Store. It's thanks to Apple's low barriers to entry that I have Shuffle Dialer on the App Store, another application in queue and awaiting approval, and another one in the works.

It's exciting to see something you created up on the iTunes Store. Especially so in this job market.

I wish I could buy a 15" MacBook Pro with a higher capacity, non-user-serviceable battery.

I agree with you on all of your other points, except for this one...

No one feels honored to pay $50 for a matte screen.

Plus, the batteries go bad after a couple years

Do you realize that the lithium-polymer battery tech Apple is using in the 17" MacBook Pro battery is expected to have a life of 5 years? That is longer than most people keep a computer.

I would understand if there something to gain by not having a removable battery. But really, does it save any space at all? Usually the bottom of the battery is the exterior of the laptop, so it doesn't have to fit "inside."

They gain considerable volume by ditching the rugged battery encasing that other laptops must have. Apple claims that they were able to achieve 40 percent greater capacity than they could have with a traditional user-serviceable battery. That means to get the same battery capacity, they would have had to make the battery about twice the size with a user-serviceable battery. That would add a good bit of thickness and weight to the laptop.

Thanks for the link.

You can also drop files in the Public folder of your iDisk that people can easily mount from within the Finder (select iDisk from the Finder's Go menu) or any WebDAV client. And your public folder can be password protected. Your friends and family can easily store that password in their Keychain so they don't have to remember it.

That's great! Now my neighbor won't be penalized for the 6 different virus and anti-spyware applications he has installed on his Windows XP notebook. /sarcasm

You're right. I guess I wasn't entirely clear. I was somewhat happy using Windows 2000. But, back then Windows XP was coming along and was going to be the future of Windows. XP is what debuted Product (de)Activation and I wasn't going to have a part of it.

So, like I said, I switched from Windows 2000 to the Mac (once Mac OS X was shipping on Macs) and I haven't looked back.

The funny thing about your comment is that my mother uses Quickbooks on her iMac that I bought her all of the time. So, it is even worse than you said, they also have to overcome the mere assumption that software they're used to on Windows isn't available elsewhere.