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goobster  ·  2726 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sean Hollister: Apple just handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom

There is some formula out there in the world, I am sure, that calculates the extra number of years of life I have earned, using Apple products as my primary computing device.

OS updates just work. Applications are easy to install and remove. You can print easily. You can connect to any peripheral or online service easily. I've never had to deal with inexplicable total failures of the OS or the hardware.

If I'd been using Windows for this long, I would have spent years - possibly decades - of my life deal with an ever-widening stream of Issues.

But my Macs have always just worked.

So yeah, maybe the inevitable "Apple has jumped the shark" complaints that have followed every single Apple announcement ever, well, maybe they are right this time.

But I'll continue to do my work on my Macs until the day I can't.

When that day comes, I'll probably switch to a pen and a smartphone, honestly. My life/time/mental health is too valuable to me to use MS products.