I love my GUI-ish setup of TextMate and CornerStone/Tower; I can only do iOS work because I have a Mac; I will buy a dedicated Windows box when I want to dabble

I love my GUI-ish setup of TextMate and CornerStone/Tower; I can only do iOS work because I have a Mac; I will buy a dedicated Windows box when I want to dabble with Windows Phone; I don't know what I'd do with my iPhone on Linux; I like Xcode4 a lot more than MSVC, in any case they are as different as day and night; mice and keyboards are similar, but can you say that about trackpads already? (Honest question - I don't know) There are a lot of differences between the major platforms. The article is true when all the moons align: You only do web (or Eclipse) work, your phone and all its apps are platform agnostic (OmniFocus locks me in), you have no games, you have no paid GUI apps, you don't care about iTunes ... I have a whole family of real, existing humans that I'd love to free from their virus-ridden Windows machines. It just isn't possible for what they do. Not sure what to take from this article. It sounds like indirect boasting about not being locked into anything. It would be more interesting to discuss if that is important.