&gt;I mean, have you been to a developer conference lately? That wasn&#x27;t a Microsoft conference? Did you happen to see any Macs there?<p>I haven&#x27;t been to a MS developer conference and saw a mix of platforms at all other conferences I&#x27;ve been to. Have you actually watched apple&#x27;s product launches? Ever notice the media consumer is whom they are marketing to?<p>&gt;OS X has shipped with a complete Unix shell since 2001. Pretty much every dangerous command you can think of on Linux will execute the same way in Terminal.<p>There is so much more to an OS than terminal, so it&#x27;s not all that matters. I suppose if one only worked 100% out of terminal and nothing else it would be a non-issue.