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No backwards support or compatibility what so ever, Apple OS updates are known to break software preventing some features from working or stop drivers altogether. Apple makes backwards compatibility difficult for developers for a simple reason, poor user numbers and a constant push forward. It is difficult for developers to test and make software for older versions of OSX because it is simply not available, basically you can only make software for the version of OSX that came with the computer.

Updating to the newest or newer version of OSX means that you may have to re-buy all your software again.

Apple does not have the largest software selection; saying you can run Windows on an Apple and you can run Windows software if you install Windows with Boot Camp, Cross Over or a virtual machine is false and misleading information, this is is not native software support, you are running Windows software with Windows not OSX.

Apple has a much smaller software selection than Windows, because it is so much more expensive to support Apple and there is no support for backwards compatibility. Many open source projects on the Internet have dropped support for the Apple version because it is so difficult to find Apple software developers.

Apple software is double the data size of Windows software. Have you tried downloading the updates for Apple’s iLife software; they are huge, up to and over 500 megabytes per update.

Removing Apple software is bitch, have you ever tried to remove Apple software, most Apps can be removed as simple as deleting the App, however, that leaves a huge mess in files you didn’t know it left behind. Some Apps have an installer and an uninstaller, which is great because if it needs one it’s probably huge like Adobe Creative Suite, but for the smaller Apps you can use the Finders search function to help find all the extra files left on your system or software for removing Apps.

The constant move forward

You buy the computer, it comes with a version of OSX and fixed hardware. You buy another computer a year or two latter it comes with a newer version of OSX and possibility different video adapters and a change of connectors. Now you have two different computers and you have to change almost everything because external equipment won’t connect to the new computer without an adapter, you have to re-buy all new software for the new computer because the old software is not compatible, so you update the old computer with the new version of OSX spending hours setting up the new software on both computers. Then the next year a new version of OSX comes out.

For these reasons, Apple computers are not good for businesses. Apple computers are have physically changed several times in the last few year, removed Firewire, changing video connectors (min-div to min-display), a button-less touch pad, removal of the optical drive, the slow addition of the SD card slot, the removal of audio ports (in-line and mic). No more 24 inch iMacs, no more 17 inch laptops. Large organizations such as the government, like to have their computers all the same or similar.

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