"Microsoft can't do that!"
"No, Apple can't do that!"
"Well my momma can beat up your momma."
My eleven year old daughter knows how to structure a better argument in debate.
Microsoft does some, but not all things well. Apple does some, but not all things well. There is plenty of room in the IT market place to support (at least!) two major companies and platforms. Competition is good for consumers. It is the American Way.
Personally, I have gone the Apple route for the past twenty five years. I am conversant with Windows and Linux, but I have yet to find anything that I cannot do efficiently with my Macs, and my iPods and soon to be my iPhone and my Apple TV. I like the fact that Apple is vertically integrated, and that Apple provides the most consistent and best consumer support in the industry. And I don't mind the fact that Steve Jobs and company run their business like a bit of a benevolent dictatorship. If I minded, I would leave, but so far, it works for me.
During the past twenty five years, I have always protected my Macintosh systems from undesired outside incursions. That, IMHO, is a matter of basic common sense. Ergo, I have never had any, at least not yet. From everything that I have seen, heard, or experienced in the IT world, Windows is inherently more susceptible to hacking, and not merely because Apple has a smaller market share. They must be doing SOMETHING right.
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