Re:Who has the market share? (Score 1)

Ten years ago when I was younger and a lot more naive, I would've totally agreed with you. Heck, if Apple did this 10, 15 and 20 years ago, maybe things would be different now - but as it stands, Windows has a lot more to offer than just games.

Fact is, because there's so many installs of Windows out there, there's a HEAP of help on the internet for problems you stumble across, it supports virtually all the hardware out there conceivably able to be plugged into a machine and more importantly, for me - is the little programs, thousands upon thousands of convenient, half decently designed tools which MacOS and Linux simply don't have.

I'm talking data de-duplication searching tools, multi-monitor window managers, downloading / p2p tools, media players, media encoders etc. There's just heaps and heaps of little things you probably wouldn't realise if you switched to Mac or Linux for the first week but suddenly in the second week, you'd be googling for 2 days trying to find that one little tool to do that one little thing which simply doesn't exist, or the only tool close to it is awkward and ghastly.

This isn't to Windows credit, Windows didn't get this stuff due to it being designed better or something, it's simply because there's more Windows installs. If linux or MacOS ever did take over, great, those tools would come - but for the time being, depending on how you use your computers, there's few reasons for a Windows guy to move to Linux or MacOS. (oh and FWIW Windows has become a pretty stable OS nowadays, I see applications crash, sure -but the whole desktop crashing is exceedingly rare)

TLDR: Games alone ain't gonna cut it to lure people away. Heck I barely play them anymore myself.

I've been running both windows and os X concurrently for 8 years, before that windows and some linux. Move to a mac was purely professional. I work as a graphics designer and all they had at the place was macs. After working on a mac for 2 years I could no longer work on windows.

So all the trouble you listed is my exact feelings about windows. Nearly all your little things you like or miss are pretty much installed in the mac out of the box. I'm not trying to sell you anything, but know that you're wrong.

I can't work on windows because the window managing is garbage. I need my expose, I need my quicklook, I need my drag and drops, I need my terminal, I need my finder with all the great stuff it can do. The menu and the look of the apps is consistent across os X. No longer need to look under "tools" or "preferences" or "settings" or whatever else I can never find quickly on windows.

Frankly I'm surprised people get any work done on windows. I have a windows machine right here in arms reach, it's used for games and testing things in browsers etc. Trust me, as I happen to run both systems: things you want are all available and for the most part work better and also look better on os X. For example I had to install skype on windows the other day... it's terrible. It has ads and crap. Same with uTorrent.

Also so far everything I plugged into the mac has worked. With windows even plugging in a simple usb drive takes forever to recognize and "install drivers". Every little update, even updating acrobat pro on windows wants a restart. WTF? Might be adobe's fault a little bit, but come on. There are so many little things on os X that I didn't know I needed until I'm on the windows machine and not have them.

I used to do IT support before I got my first real designer position and macs have far fewer problems then windows (still doing support, because I'm here and isn't that oh so very convenient when IT is like 2 floors down). It has gotten way better over the years, but compared to os X it's still crap. The only real trouble I've had with macs is when you are trying to marry them to corporate things spawned from microsoft. But it's more or less the same with windows machines, so I wouldn't lay blame on os X.