Almost zero.

What happened is they started getting SUBSCRIPTION CANCELLATIONS.

You want a corp to reverse a decision, you start hurting the corp in the bottom line. Economics is what counts.

What are the chances they staged this whole thing as a publicity stunt?

The security and stability that OS X offers beats XP and Vista hands down. I know I’m far safer in a networked multiplayer environment in OS X than I would be in Windows.

Plus, I like the fact that there’s a bit of a delay when a Windows game is released and when the OS X port comes out. Most Windows games are buggy unstable over-hyped pieces of crap. So only the best, most stable and popular games get to the Mac platform. The over-hyped stuff never makes it. Which is a good thing IMHO.

Also when a Windows games gets ported over, it arrives with all the patches, and sometimes it includes the expansion packs too.

Besides, both of my favorite game makers have supported the Mac platform for years. Id Software and Blizzard. As long as I have World of Warcraft and Doom And Quake and Starcraft I am a happy gamer.

And thanks to the switch to Intel chips, the time bewteen when a Windows game becomes available for the mac has been greatly reduced. In some cases to a matter of a month or two.

I object to every point raised in that retched PC World article.

One rarely sees such a poetic post
Once a month, or
Twice at most.

If people like the interface (or rather, comparative lack thereof), that’s evidence that Apple wasn’t “spinning” that as a feature… but that it really was one, just as Apple insisted from the first marketing material. Good features bring users.

(That and, well, the logic behind the feature is clear. Hell, full-size iPods have had shuffle-play since the 1G (I’ve only ever used my iPods in that mode myself). The idea that not having a display and pile of buttons can’t have honestly been intended as a feature from the start of planning is ludicrous.)

“they also added a new, 10 Things We Love About Apple article as well.”

That’s untrue, because that was always intended. The “hate” and the “love” list are both fluff and neither deserved to see the light of day.

Thurrott is such a low-life for pretending otherwise. It suits Leo Laporte to pretend Thurrott isn’t a low-life, but even Leo must know damn well that he is.

At the moment Thurrott is nearly wetting himself because some poor prune prefers using Vista on his MacBook to using OS X. I mean: one guy - so what? Assuming the user in question isn’t a plant, he’s a fool. The gap between OS X and Windows is so large it’s embarrassing.

After all, if I were able to dig out a badly designed PS/2 trackball from 1999, do I get to say that all PCs ever built before or since are worthless by association?