Why I use a Mac

I'm a long-time *nix user. Back in the mid-nineties I blinged my fvwm (not fvwm2, you nancies) with the best of them. I rolled with the *BSD crowd for quite a while back then too. Back then, that's where the pipe-cutting mofos of computing hung out because that's where the action was.

Somewhere along the way, Linux stopped being the place cool stuff happened. On the server side, Solaris has been sexier for some time. On the desktop (where I spend most of my time) OS X seems to be the only place where innovation is occurring.

I think part of the reason the Mac is more appealing to me these days than Linux is that OS X has figured out how to create both a viable open source and a viable commercial software ecosystem.

Here's a graphic illustrating what I perceive to be Apple's platform advantage: