Yeah..I figure you know what I run, not only on my desktops but on hundreds of servers!

This is Microsoft’s primary problem and the reason why I’m no longer a MS fanboy as I once was. Apple, despite their issues, does still seem to take the end-user into consideration when they are designing hardware and software.

I look at the new droid commercials, specifically the ones called “DriodDoes.” Now I’m an iPhone lover, I adore my iPhone. But I look at that phone and I’m unimpressed. Apparently the Droid “does” things that the iPhone doesn’t. Impressive techie things, like run two programs at once. But you know, people… the users, don’t really want a phone that does two programs at once. They want a phone that works.

Apple works. When I sync my iPhone to my MacBook Pro, it does more than charge or update my playlists. Everything syncs. My latest podcast downloads move to the phone while the ones I’ve listen to are deleted. The latest pictures of my children are added to my phone. The pictures I’ve taken with the phone are downloaded to the computer. The computer itself automatically backs itself up too, so all my information is save. It isn’t a phone, a computer and a back up hard drive… it’s a full system that does what I want. Easily. Simply. And reliably.

With Windows you get a powerful system that can do lots of things. But those “things” aren’t always what I want. And the phone I got may or may not talk to my computer. And it may or may not update all my files. It may not may not grab my latest pictures. Heck, I’ve yet to find a system that catalog my pictures half as well as iPhoto.

That’s why people who move to the mac tend to be loyal. Because it all works. Not one part, or another… but the whole system.