"Apple understand that the responsibility lies with their software to adapt to humans, not with humans to learn the ins and outs of unintuitive software." This

"Apple understand that the responsibility lies with their software to adapt to humans, not with humans to learn the ins and outs of unintuitive software." This isn't how Apple does things. Apple computers do not adapt to users. They do things in the "Apple Way". Users must learn that way or suffer. The good thing about this complete refusal to adapt to users is that everyone has exactly the same Apple experience. You don't have to ask Apple users what shell or window manager they're using. This makes finding help easier and, in theory at least, should make it easier to eliminate bugs (Lion is actually very buggy). Arguably, small bugs and inconsistent behavior do more to confuse neophyte users than large interface flaws. Apple's motto, "think different", should really be, "think like us". Is that good for the computer illiterate? Perhaps. Still, I'm a bit amazed that some power users put up with the rigidity of OSX and apparently seem to like it. I've used it off and on a few times over the last decade (I most recently used Lion for about a year) and it's always a relief to go back to an OS that is designed to adapt.