The ongoing debate over leaving Apple, playing out over on Mark Pilgrim's blog (Bye, Apple; When the bough breaks; Juggling oranges), Daring Fireball (And Oranges), and Tim Bray's blog (Time to Switch?) highlights very nicely many of the thoughts I'm having of late, too. Right now, the decision is in the balance. I'd really miss iPhoto, Keynote, Omnigraffle, and to a lesser extent, Textmate. Hmmm.
I'd probably have already switched if PC laptops weren't so darned ugly. There's got to be a market out there for Macbook Pro clones, surely? (Preferably ones that run quiet and cool.)
Posted by savs at June 19, 2006 5:48 PMAnother reason I've considered moving away from Apple hardware is their support is not that good if you absolutely NEED your machine. It's absolutely brilliant for normal consumers, but if you're a developer (or similar) who must have access to their machine at all times it's not brilliant. Apple stores are a step up, but they still want to take the machine from you and they don't provide a replacement in the meantime. It's no good to me being without my machine for 2 days, let alone two weeks!
If you move away from Apple in order to get instant machine support (i.e IBM or HP), then your choices are either Windows or Linux. Bet I know which one you'd choose then ;-)
Not to say I'm actually going to do it ... the design element is Sooo strong!
Posted by: Steve George at June 21, 2006 10:19 PM