Quite frankly, I don't understand people's continued fascination for Apple's operating system/hardware in the last 10 years. I will admit, I was a MAC fanboy for the first 20 years or so. But my plastic tower's mother board died after 3 years and it was going to cost $800 to replace it, and an HP Tower with Windows XP at Best Buy cost only $500. It got me off and running.
Apple has always been a Premium hardware/software combo. There was a time, it was the only choice when it came to Photoshop and graphic design and early video. But times have changed. Apple's cash cow is the iPhone, and even that is at it's peak and starting to slide??
Computing has become a commodity. Are we headed back to the centralized computing model when all we need is a display with some sort of input method, be it a touch screen, keyboard, or graphics tablet?
I just think that Apple doesn't have a vision for the future. Everything Apple today was part of Job's vision. Nothing new has come to pass. Interesting that you can have such a huge company with a wonderful futuristic building, tens and thousands of people working, billions of working capitol, and still can't seem to come up with a vision for a computing commodity workstation that is ongoing!