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Most people aren’t concerned with these things. There’s a difference between someone who wants to just browse the web and someone who wants to use a command line. One of the bigger differences is that the first group makes up most of the market.</p>
<p>As for having a real Unix console, the OS X terminal has significant deficiencies which are extremely frustrating. One example is the use of a case-insensitive filesystem, which drives me crazy to no end. There’s an option during the OS X install to use a case-sensitive filesystem, but of course, that would introduce incompatibilities with many OS X applications, which is what usually happens if you attempt to stray from Apple’s narrowly defined consumer experience.</p>
<p>Another example is the lack of adherence to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. The combination of capital letters in common directory names with a case-insensitive filesystem leads to tab completion nightmares.</p>
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You wouldn’t happen to be talking about the MacBook Air would you? After all, it doesn’t matter how long the battery lasts, seeing as you can’t remove it. And if it dies, you get to send it in to Apple to have them replace it, for an expensive fee, of course.</p>
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Same here, most people aren’t developing, and they definitely aren’t using virtual machines or worrying about the number of bits per instruction in their processors. They’re perfectly happy with 32-bit Vista.</p>
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In the real world, most users don’t care about the things on which you’re basing your computer purchasing decisions.</p>
<p>Apple is doing well because of their supreme marketing. That’s what draws most people to their computers. They like the advertisements and think the Macs look good.</p>