Velvet Rope OS (Score 1)

Right, I feel the same way. I admire products like Jabber that sit on the bleeding edge and the people that build them, I just don't want to use them until they actually work. If it weren't for bleeding-edge community projects like Jabber, then we would only get innovation from Microsoft, and that's not good for anybody.

Apple and OSX users owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to both the Linux and the Windows communities. It is still important to remember that there is a big difference between appreciating those communities for what they offer and trying to woo users from those communities to OSX.

I am extremely happy with the current situation, where Apple only occupies 5% of the market. That 5% is made up of people that appreciate Apple's highly-managed approach to providing a consistent, compelling, and comfortable user experience.

I sit in front of my Aqua interface and I'm just awed at how beautiful it looks. It even looks beautiful when I have five different terminal windows up, open to different Linux machines. Front-ends should be beautiful, back-ends should be powerful. Apple understands this.