For those who aren't on Mac yet: think about it...

Posted by Anthony
Oct 20, 2015 at 05:11 PM

Battles between Mac and Win supporters seem a bit more fuzzy nowadays. See here:
http://lifehacker.com/mac-vs-windows-your-best-arguments-486125257

Just two facts on Hardware and other two on Software:
- Parallels went public. The company does not only that, but it seems to make good money from its desktop software. In fact many Macs run (or even boot) Windows.
- PC owners does not have the same easy choice. Hackintosh is there, but it takes work, without guarantee of success, above all with laptops.

So with Mac hardware you have more OS choices. This helps to explain why the Inc. world is no longer reluctant to buy a Mac.
A note of concern: Microsoft is increasingly becoming a hardware company. At some point they may decide to make their OS incompatible (or very difficult) to run with a MacOSX emulation or with a dual boot. Macs would become a bit than less attractive, I guess.

About Software, and most of all outliners, two facts seem to have favoured MacOS in the recent decade:
- WinOS, regardless to its updating, continues to offer poor knowledge management. I think for instance to its inability to handle natively PDFs. As a consequence, there are very few Win applications with good PDF features, like preview, thumbnails on-the-fly, etc., as compared to the huge collection of apps available with MacOS.
- Development OSX tools seem superior than WinOS tools. The introduction in the last decade of the .Net standard made probably more arm than help to the Win world.

If something will change in this regard, probably also the outliner PC software will benefit. In these last years it seemed to languish