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Irrational reasons? Do you even know what people want in a computer? It's like pegging all BMW buyers as "irrational" because a Kia is just as good a car, all the same features, and comes at a fraction of the price.

I don't know what "walled garden" you're talking about. It was Microsoft that started locking down their systems with CD keys, Windows Genuine Advantage, and Windows Application Certification. DRM everywhere! Apple, on the other hand, has never had a CD key for their OS.

Your ignorance is staggering. Steve Jobs was working on NeXT in 1986, a BSD-based UNIX-type system at its core. Linus Torvalds was in high school. How did he rip off Linux, exactly, when it didn't even exist?

Your thinking is at least fifteen years out of date. Anyone who dismisses OS X as a "toy" doesn't know what they're talking about.



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