Originally Posted by
undone Apples Unix kernel operating system isn't maintained very well. Though they might release a patch for a particular revision, it's more likely that they release a new packaged OS and charge there customers. Pure genius. Unix is a great operating system, but like all OS, if its not properly maintained and correctly patched, it will be hacked. Ask a Black Hat how they feel about Mac OS.
Pre-Unix Mac OS was 'different' though not always the most stable. Even the Power-PC chips made them different. RISC based chips being faster because of less instructions on the chip, just needed tighter code. But that's all gone now. Intel X86 machines with the same hardware types doesn't warrant the high price point. There selling point is the UI, which Windows based OS's never seemed to get right, though XP was around for what 9-11 years or some trash like that. I'd watch for Apple to walk away from the PC/Desktop arena.
Mobility is whats hot and Apple has a good pipeline to the consumer based customers. RIM is behind the curve, but that's normal, they have in the past try to offer a stable product for the enterprise customers, now they are (in recent years) working the consumer space. Harder market to make a move in, people are fickle. Enterprise customers generally have been BB users. So as much as this can seem to be brainwashing to others, buying another BB is like updating your Mac OS. Looks the same, runs the same, but is just better then last year.