Linux is fine and all, except the horrid GUI and lack of any REAL software. I make my living using the Adobe stuff and DAWs like Logic Pro. I'm perfectly fine running Apple hardware and software. I haven't have any freedoms taken away. Plus it doesn't spy on me like Android and Chrome. :)

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair. I still have it. After that was an AST Pentium, which I returned in 28 days and got an Apple Performa 6115CD (PowerMac 6100) in 1994.

I use both US Customary and metric, and for many things I prefer US Customary units. Metric tends to be either too coarse or too fine. You go from mm to cm and then to meters. I'd rather see something as 24 inches than 609.6 mm or 60.96 cm. And you often see small measurements as something like 3.4mm... seriously? 0.4 mm? In this regard, having rules with small increments like 64ths of an inch is much easier to use. I'm a guitar maker, and as such I often have to use both systems. It's not a big deal, and all the people who get worked up about the US not using the metric system need to try building things using it. :)

Some stuff just can't be repaired by the consumer. For years we had products that said "no user serviceable parts inside." As electronic devices get thinner, they are pretty much glued together. Is anyone complaining because they can't repair their TV or microwave?

Keep the screw drivers off the market? lol You can by dozens of them from all over the place. Here's one for $1.90 from Walmart https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fos...

Yeah, basically IBM paid for Microsoft to develop NT. If you look like MS's history, it's filled with them doing unethical things. IBM should have known better after the whole DOS fiasco.

I had an ATM crash on me once when I was trying to get money out of it. It ran OS/2 Warp!

This holding company doesn't make any products. This wasn't even their patents. They are a well known patent troll.

VirnetX is regularly described as a patent troll, making most of its revenue through licensing the patents that it holds. They also instigated lawsuits against Microsoft and Cisco.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

Clearly you don't understand how design patents work. Samsung did, but they admitted to stealing the look of the iPhone. Look at their phones before the iPhone. They copied Blackberry!

But it's OK. Apple make this money back in about an hour.

It comes with 2 types of USB ports...

2x USB 3.0
4x USB 2.0

You pay for Android with allowing Google to data mine your info. This is why they wanted to be on mobile phones in the first place. This is why they offer "free" services like Gmail and photos. Their software reads all your emails. Then they target ads to you. Google Now is another way they can get advertising info from you. That's how Google makes their income, and why they can give Android away for "free" to phone makers. It's not about being open source. It's about advertising revenue.

They went with NeXTSTEP, which was released three years before there ever was a Linux. And of course NeXT was Steve Job's baby.

They were concerning BeOS, which I always thought was an interesting operating system. A copy of it came with my PowerComputing Mac clone.

If you really study macOS, and before that NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, you will see that it's not entirely BSD, and they didn't steal anything. NeXTSTEP was introduced in 1988s. And if you weren't hiding under a rock (or maybe you weren't born then?), you'd know that the first web browser and app store were created on NeXTSTEP. Plus, if you want to talk about Linux, Apple was a big supporter of Linux, and released MkLinux in 1996. I used to run it on my PowerMac 6100. It was sponsored by Apple Computer and OSF Research Institute.

They took parts of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mach/BSD, since it runs on the Mach kernel. Windows NT and SUN Solaris also use BSD code.

The BSD License allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products. So how did they steal anything? The parts they did use, they released as Darwin, which is open source, and is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and other free software projects.

So where's the problem? They followed the BSD License, and give credit. You can see it when you boot macOS in verbose mode. And they released their modified code as open source. This includes things like WebKit.

Yes it can.