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I would actually agree to sign a contract the bound me to upgrade my Apple hardware every 1.5 years if it would guarantee they stop ruining Mac OS X. My problem isn't so much the fact I have to replace these things so often, its that its not even that great day 1 anymore. With the exception of AirPlay perhaps, just about every major facet of OS X has gotten so progressively worse for my workflow: Safari (bogs my computer down no matter how much ram I have), dual display support (a joke since Lion), Messages (buggiest piece of software I've ever used in my life, by a long shot), iTunes (same as Safari), etc etc etc

Edit: I'd like to point out one other thing. Before anyone chimes in with how Windows or Linux or other PC makers are worse, I completely agree with you. My position is that while Mac OS X may still be the "best", it has been a long time since it has been "good". I find little consolation in the fact that it is not "as broken" as everything else, nor do I think that's anything to be particularly proud of. Especially with the amount of money I've given them.

Ok honest question and I hope you don't take this the wrong way:

Preface: Today two of my co-workers were lamenting over a similar phenomenon that you described, in addition to describing their MBP hardware troubles (dead motherboards, in this instance). Their solution was to buy another macintosh.

Why is this the solution? I don't buy the argument that other PC makers are worse. If my laptop died after 2 years, especially if I paid Apple prices for it, I'd be so pissed off that I would buy just about anything but another Apple device.

Have you tried using a quality PC with a modern distribution of Mint or something installed? I think you might rethink your position about "everyone else being worse". Take this with a grain of salt, I've had the same dell laptop for 5 years with Xubuntu and 0 problems. If I didn't have that experience my outlook would likely be different.

So, I have a couple of answers. The first being that you are probably right. I've been a Mac user my whole life so a big part of it is just comfort, coupled with some remaining hope that things will return to the way things were. It was not that long ago that OS X updates were genuinely solid. Everything up to Tiger was great in my opinion. Secondly, I plan on making myself a PC in the near future just to handle graphics stuff and for gaming. The latest 10.8.3 update has negatively affected my framerates and the lack of support for the latest graphics cards is making it harder and harder to do some tasks. Lastly, there is the fact that I do iOS development so I need a Mac for that regardless. If I was still doing web dev my options might be different.

I wonder how much this has to do with the departure of Bertrand Sertlet.

“I’ve worked with Steve for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science.”

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/03/23Bertrand-Serlet-to...

Ditto to that, i was a huge fan of OSX until lion and mission control. Started to use win 7 with dexpot and some other customization and haven't booted to OSX in at least 6 months now.

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