That's what keeps me out of Linux: the other software. I mean, OS X is free. The software I run on OS X is, like, nine grand.

I got into mac because the PCs I built kept cooking their CPUs, despite having no overclocking and full BIOS monitoring. So I said "fuck it I'm not dealing with this" and tried to buy a 5-year-old Bondi Blue iMac for $175. The used store talked me up to a $275 iMac G3 because "it could run OS X, which is pretty much Unix." So I went to Best Buy and discovered that you can enable Right Click and that once you had a command prompt, it was like a real operating system.

'cuz that's the thing: you can do anything you need to do from the command prompt, which means you can hack OS X to the point where it's usable. The last on-board program I got rid of was Address Book. I now use entirely third party. I've been beta-testing for these guys for ten years now.

Somewhere on here veen linked to an article of why Apple was totally fucked with Maps because the only way you get decent data is by putting in the work and Google put in the work ten years ahead of everyone else. Which means either you sink mad man-hours into it or you acknowledge that you're always gonna be behind. I'll say this: the obliques you get with Bing's birds eye views are dope. But the SAR data in the portable versions of Earth kicks the shit out of Bing & Apple.