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Originally Posted by JosephM
While true that OSX has had some bugs, the fixes were released fast and included other improvements, compared to just ONE service pack for XP so far. Also, it's the fact that the world is changing when it comes to computers is the problem. People now have power, and when that power is taken away by Microsoft and other corporations, then they angary. There's a difference between Jiffy Lube using those tactics since not many of us can go diagnose and fix a car, but many here can do that to a computer. Power for people is the change here.
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I'd argue that many of us (mechanically-inclined FIRST-people)
can fix a car (or at least change the oil), and
do have the power to make an informed choice in both situations--the car, or the computer. If Jiffy Lube decides "our oil will henceforth only work with a Jiffy Lube filter", I can switch out of protest (Castrol, Havoline, Mac OS, Linux), or I can ask myself, "for what I do with it, is their new filter-oil combination better, or worse". If better, why switch? Is it so odious that their products only work with each other?
And didn't you have to pay $20 (USD) for 10.1? And $60 (USD) for 10.2? On top of whatever OS 10 is worth in the first place? Both XP and OS 10 offer free hotfixes. It is therefore difficult to see why two (extra-cost) incremental releases are somehow superior to one free service pack.