Why Apple Works
Reg Braithwaite has a brilliant piece about Apple as a purveyor of hardware as opposed to software.
Apple is in the hardware business:
People who think of the argument as being Apple vs. Microsoft think of the two companies as being in the OS business. But Apple is not in the OS business, and hasn’t been in that business since Jobs returned and quickly killed the OEM Macintosh market. Think of an iPod touch. Would anybody argue that when you buy an iPod you are buying a copy of OS X with a dongle that happens to play music attached to it? Seriously? is anybody complaining that they can’t transfer their copy of OS X from an iPod touch to whatever lame music player Microsoft is peddling this week?
[Via: raganwald]
Yeah, so what if I’m a fan boy too. 
Not everyone wants to build a computer from the ground up and add OS X. Ok; I admit I wished I could initially. I love building and fixing computers, but I got over it. I found that even though I couldn’t build it I still love Mac’s.
I switched to a 17″ MBP in October 2006. I loved it. I loved it so much I purchased my father a PowerMac G5. I guess he’s a fan boy also. He likes it because it just works. I’m happy I purchased it for him because I no longer receive calls telling me, “Opal, something is wrong with my computer can you come over and fix…”
If you think about it there are a lot of “Freedom Zero” products out there.
I’ll tune in for tune in for Coding Horrors rants on those topics or maybe not… 