I use all kinds of OS’s but still prefer the Mac the best. The more you work with it, the more you appreciate the little things that usually just seem to be better thought out from the beginning. Software typically isn’t buggy–MS seems to continuously charge for should be considered beta software. But for most people, as you say, good enough is good enough, especially given the pricepoint and popularity of Windows. Mac geeks get excited about Macworld announcements because it’s fun–a couple of times a year, there’s a bunch of new products, and some attention to their OS of choice. Of course it’s also about pulling for the underdog, fighting the man and all of that. It’s really not that hard to figure out.

I was rather perplexed by his final comments about MS & Intel getting standards better than Apple. Sorry but that’s just plain a crock, MS has never been about standards but rather getting a monopoly and dictating it’s own proprietary standards to the world. Intel has been the same way, with marketing dictating processor naming and releases, proprietary extensions put in not because of technological superiority but to out market the competition. Apple has been about as good as a for profit company can be at publishing open standards for the world to use. Of course that has made them sort of the lovable loser, lots of innovation and great technology but dropping the ball on marketing or application.