It's complicated. I won't be switching yet, because all my Apple kit is <2 years old. Barring some sort of disaster, I'll have it for another couple years at l

It's complicated. I won't be switching yet, because all my Apple kit is <2 years old. Barring some sort of disaster, I'll have it for another couple years at least. But they're definitely on watch, as far as I'm concerned. It's not just that I'm disappointed by the new hardware. It's that their software - the real thing that got me to switch to Apple in the first place - is getting increasingly bad. The bundled apps, both for OS X and iOS, are a UX basket case of early 2000s Windows Media Player proportions. I wish I could go back to the skeuomorphic era; those apps were goofy but at least they didn't do shit like quietly deleting music from my phone "to free up space" when I still have 8 gigabytes to spare. And I'm getting more and more pissed at Apple for harassing me 5+ times a day to upgrade iOS, which I am not going to do because, seriously, now is not a good time for me to do any OS upgrades and I really wish they could understand that I do not live my life by their schedule. But Microsoft sure doesn't do great on that latter point either, and I have definitely lost work when my Win 8 VM decided to reboot itself without my permission. At least Apple is polite about being a dick to me over the OS upgrades. That said, 2 years is a while, and both companies could go either way from here. And as far as I'm concerned, Unix running Windows in a VM is no less functional than Windows running Unix in a VM. But Microsoft is shipping hardware I care about, whereas Apple seems like it's ready to charge back into the hockey puck mouse era. I switched to Apple as my primary platform at home just after that period ended, so it'd be fitting to switch away when it starts again. About the only thing I'm confident is unlikely to happen is that I go back to Linux as my primary OS, because, seriously, Linux as a desktop OS is like something out of a Samuel Beckett play.