There's a reason Windows machines own a good 92% of the desktop/laptop marketshare, and it's because Apple's can't do squat besides run their pretty little apps and stupid gimmicks like photobooth.
Wow that's such a load of horsesh*t I don't even know where to begin or if it's even worth it.
I didn't realize there were still people this ignorant about Mac OS.
I'll try and keep it brief.
Windows has 92% of the desktop/laptop market because:
1. Microsoft licenses the OS to everyone so there is a massive selection of machines at every price point and form factor out there.
2. Apple SAT STILL on their OS development for more than 10 years with System 6 - Mac OS 9 and even then, it took Microsoft years to get to Windows XP to pass the Mac OS up in any meaningful way.
3. Apple still limits their OS to their hardware deliberately. They are a hardware company, not a software company like Microsoft, that's why, and because they insist on controlling the quality of the user experience from start to finish.
There are pros and cons to both. I use both myself. Windows 7 is the first Microsoft OS I've used that I don't loathe though. It's actually pretty good.
Windows compatibility and licensing to everything and everyone makes it very versatile and PC's make sense in the enterprise market because Microsoft offers lots of solutions there, the machines can be had cheap and Microsoft is just fine with holding back development of their OS to maintain the backwards compatibility to the year 0 that enterprise customers demand.
There are also a massive ton more games for Windows and it's fantastic that you can build your own PC with great specs for half the price of a locked down iMac. I grant you all of that. That is why I use both.
Don't kid yourself though. If you think Microsoft would have made anything remotely as user friendly and intuitive as Windows 7 or Windows Phone without the influence of Apple's work, you are delusional.
As far as capability, you're truly an ignoramus if you think all Mac's can do is run photo booth and "pretty little apps". Whenever I read something like this tripe, I always picture the guy with the red stapler from Office Space.
I'm typing this on a MacBook Air right now that is running Mac OS X 10.7 on one desktop, Windows 7 on another, email on a third desktop and a VM running Ubuntu Linux (not on at the moment though) I'm connected to Citrix Xen Desktop as well, in another browser window on my FOURTH desktop.
The FOUR desktops I have running are all on my external monitor, which I can flip through or minimize anyway I like with some simple trackpad gestures, while I have a 5th browser window open on the laptop screen for this forum and my "goofing off" webpages.
I also have Photoshop, Microsoft Office, OmniGraffle Pro, which I use to make Visio compatible diagrams, which I regular get compliments on because they look far better than anything Visio spits out.
There are about 1000 other things I do regularly, probably with a lot more ease than you, with fewer steps than you on your uber-capable Windows PC, but I won't bore you with the details.
Pull your head out of your backside. Mac OS X isn't iOS. It's a UNIX based OS that is easily as capable or more capable than any form of Windows you've got and the interface still kicks the crap out of Windows. For the love of God, Windows is still using the registry, WinFS still hasn't been implemented (is it even being developed any more or has Microsoft given up on a modern file system?) and Windows STILL doesn't have multiple desktops after Linux has had it for more than 10 years and the Mac has had it for about 4+ years.
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