unswitching and diversity
Tim Bray considers unswitching (from Apple, rather than to it); the issues he mentions include lack of corporate transparency (he uses the word ‘infofascism’), mediocre laptop, and inability to run Sun products.
Since my personal ‘tecosystem’ could always use a little more diversity, I’m not wanting to switch but to add an Apple. In this light, Tim’s post doesn’t make me pause, but I’ll dig for other unswitch stories out of curiosity. Price is the classic complaint, but the transparency issue Tim gripes about is an interesting Apple vulnerability.
I’m still a bit undecided about where to enter the Mac line, and I don’t need this kind of distraction in the next few months, so it will be Summer before I bite, if ever. That comfortably accommodates Tiger even if the rumor is really a rumor, and not a crack of light that somehow slipped out of the box.