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The other side is that Apple is not preferred in many corporate shops exactly because of that.

• mikeash 12y ago
  That's an excellent point. Neither approach is perfect, just different tradeoffs.
• bunderbunder 12y ago
  And how. My company relies on a lot of in-house software that was built against Microsoft technologies from the 1990s, and are still supported. We have plenty of resources; we could port/rewrite them if we needed to. But that isn't cheap, and I imagine we've saved a lot of money over the years thanks to Microsoft's devotion to backward-compatibility on Windows. Not just development cost, but cost related to software defects we have not created because we've been able to leave already-working software in place. (Web applications that rely on ActiveX, on the other hand. . .)