&gt;Mossberg pointed to &quot;a gradual degradation in the quality and reliability of Apple’s core apps.&quot; He fingered iTunes for the desktop (&quot;I dread opening the thing&quot;), and the Mail, Photos, and iCloud programs.<p>As somebody that&#x27;s used a Mac for 90%+ of all computing-related tasks since OS X was released, all of the above-mentioned apps&#x2F;services have been dead to me for years. I honestly can&#x27;t remember the last time I purposely used any of the above.<p>What&#x27;s driving me away is a combination of flaky behavior on the desktop (bizarre wifi glitches; bizarre NFS&#x2F;SMB&#x2F;AFP mount behaviors; increasing system instability), and a lack of differentiation across both the desktop and mobile platform. There was a time when I needed a Mac or i-Device to do things I cared about&#x2F;needed, but those days are long over. Almost all of my compute activity happens on a server in my homelab or &#x27;the cloud&#x27;, and Linux and Android meets or exceeds my needs for completing other tasks. I just swapped my iPhone 6+ for a Nexus 6P, and my current MacBook (12&quot; model) will probably be my last when I retire it in 3-4 years.