Apple reasons:

It seems of late Apple have been doing some very greedy monopolistic things to their consumers.  Now one of the reason for leaving Vista could have been to get away from the Microsoft monopoly, but now it looks like Apple are going the same way.   In fact Apple’s position could be slightly more dangerous and here is my thinking why.  Microsoft have done some questionable things in the past but now because of the antitrust stuff they have been mostly kept in check.  Apple doesn’t currently seem to be as restricted.  Here are the things that Apple has done lately that really annoy me.

1.   Overcharge for the iPhone, actually all their hardware is quite pricey.

2.  Reduce the iPhone bye $200 after only 2 months, shafting all early adopters.  Fair enough they did recompense these people but only after Apple witnessed the anger of it’s fans.

3.  Charges an extra 99 cents for a ringtone of a tune you already own.

4.   Putting a chip in the new iPods that renders nearly all 3rd party video accessories useless.  Then asking $49 for the Apple video cable.  Not been backward compatible for technical reasons is fine. But to deliberately put a chip in to make accessories obsolete is just plain wrong.

5.  Releasing an update for the iPhone to deliberately break 3rd party apps.  It is obvious to me why they have done this.  If others can add 3rd party apps and improve the iPhone this will make it more difficult for Apple to find features of it’s own to add to the next iPhone.

In addition to these corporate decisions another thing that has annoyed me is the attitude of the sales staff in the Apple Resellers, now I don’t know if this just applies to the Netherlands and Belgium,  the staff  just do not seem interested in whether you buy something or not.  They seem to have the attitude that they are doing you a favour selling you a computer.

And finally I tried out a hacked version of Tiger on my laptop just to get a feel of what it was like.  Now please no one get upset here my experience could have been marred by the fact that my graphic card was unsupported so could only run a 1024×768.  But having never used a Mac OS before and going on how Apple fans rave about it I was somewhat underwhelmed.  It just looked so basic and I really did not like the idea of having the application menu bar continually at the top of the screen this just did not seem right to me.  Another thing I found strange was that you could only resize the windows from one corner; would it be so hard for Apple to make so you could resize from any edge of a window.

Some stuff looked cool like the genie minimise and the dock is very smooth and I really like the idea that most of the components of an app are kept together making it easier to remove them if required.  Anyway this is only a few observation from using the OS for 10 minutes I will comment more when I have more experience.