The problem is, I use pretty much just the hardware. Most of the software I use is not Apple and it's the rare Apple service that I do use (and none that I can't live without).We can complain about how Apple doesn't have the magic it used to have, but let's be honest, no one in the consumer electronics segment has been able to meet Apple's level of coordinated software, hardware and services approach even when they are slacking.
But, I never expected my computer (whatever it was) to be magical. The first ones I got were not magical. They required that I do something to get something out of them. Want to run a program? Type it in. It was easier to play games and that's primarily how they functioned for me until my late teens when I started needing my computers to do other things.
When I finally came to Mac completely (2003) it was because Apple had proven to me that their computers and OS would function despite problems. Problems that would have crippled (and did cripple) my PC at the time.
So, I've stayed because of the hardware.
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