Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
I used to be hardcore windows guy...<p>Then 10 years ago I got a mac.  I never went back..<p>But what am I saving money for right now?  To build a nice PC again.<p>Mostly because of the exact reasons in the article.<p>I have a fondness for apple... but they have definitely lost their way.  First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Computer company who also made a phone.  Then they became a computer company who also made a phone and a tablet.  Then they became a phone company who also made computers and tablets.<p>Now they are a phone company who presides over the death throws of an amazing operating system that is going to be killed off to make it more like a phone.  The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop"<p>It makes me sad, as a mac fan.  The hardware is getting worse.  The decisions are getting dumber every time.  I wont buy a laptop without a magsafe or similar connection, i have kids and animals, and the magsafe has saved a laptop more than once.. to remove something that was as core and identifiable a part of their computers was just a stupid move and served no purpose.<p>They don't listen to the industry or the consumers anymore, they stick their fingers in their ears and pretend to know best.<p>Jobs was hardheaded, but reasonable.  Cook is trying to emulate the hardheadedness but fails to recognize the reasonability needed to balance that.