I really don't see the apocalypse others are seeing here. It's probably because I spent 1.5 years on a solaris box at home (from my normally mac life), nicely

I really don't see the apocalypse others are seeing here. It's probably because I spent 1.5 years on a solaris box at home (from my normally mac life), nicely insulated from the fix of the mac way. Yup, Apple's consumerizing computers. It's about time, really. I'm rejoicing: I won't have to help fix people's iPads with network settings, app install/uninstall/reinstall, rebooting, or anything else. It'll solve their simple problems without unnecessary complexity. And I won't buy one. It's that simple. Instead, I think it's a wonderful time to hack. I really don't understand what the problem is. Gnome is actually pretty nice now (before OS X I was a linuxer from ~1995 to 2001, coming back now it's pretty nice!). My Nokia N900 is a wonderful little linux-based phone, and it's the stock software stack on the stock hardware! I still mourn Sun, and will for a while. I'm looking at replacing my beloved Ultra 40m2 with a stock supermicro mobo/case combination. Linux will fly on it. If I don't want that, I can build arduino kits up myself! If I want more power I can pick up a high-powered arm dev board with a display controller, wifi, ethernet, and plenty of storage and ram to hack! Otherwise I have a pc, with an open OS! In my book, us geeks have been hogging computer technology for too long. We have everything we need, and it's time we stop making everyone else suffer for our thoroughly-satisfied needs for openness.