This is exactly the kind of Apple arrogance that made me not want to switch in the first place. Just because it's the Jobs way, doesn't always mean it's the best way.
I could point out countless other examples of seeming inconsistencies in either OS, not the least of which is the fact that we can use 'Copy' and 'Paste' for files in exactly the same way as with text etc., and yet for some reason you say Cut is different. Not only that, but your other reasoning is flawed, that the file needs to be copied in order to be cut, when in fact Windows simply memorises the path and only moves the file at Paste time (if it's on the same drive no copying is involved at all). Just like drag and drop.
I can't follow your reasoning at all, and feel you are just jumping to defend your misplaced Apple pride. Apple is not perfect, and, despite a great deal of Windows' success being stolen from Mac OS (ok, almost all), there are things to learn from the competition.
When I initially switched many years ago, like many ex-Windows users, two of the most frustrating differences were not being able to Cut, and not being able to full-screen maximise simply. I was told to stick with it, adapt, and I'd eventually appreciate Apple's design choices. I'm sorry but I still miss both features (the double-click titlebar to maximise the most - those little coloured buttons are so annoyingly small, and I still feel that a full-maximise would be so much more productive for me - I can instantly snap into the use of an application with no distractions on the screen). It's been many years, and I sometimes feel now that the designers at Apple Inc won't include these features out downright stubbornness - they don't want to admit that in the two small but important UI features, they were wrong and M$ were right. How could it really hurt to include them?
I am in no way a M$ fan, and do not buy any of their products any more, but sometimes these simple features made me feel like I had more control in my day-to-day work, instead of endlessly waiting for spring-loaded folders or repositioning Finder windows to drag, quite often dropping the file on an application or the desktop by mistake instead, and the endless, tedious resizing of windows to fill the screen so I can concentrate on my work.
And why do these buttons not match anything else in the UI???
