Fair enough; in retrospective, I've focused on "Interoperability" part of your last sentence, where I find Apple to be more-or-less awful.
I cannot much contribute to the quality aspect in the context you speak of, so I'll take your word - of the many kinds of geeks I've been in the past, I've purposefully never been an Audio/Video geek, because I feel that way madness lies (for me) - for the type of reasons you outline and many many more :)
I cannot much contribute to the quality aspect in the context you speak of, so I'll take your word - of the many kinds of geeks I've been in the past, I've purposefully never been an Audio/Video geek, because I feel that way madness lies (for me) - for the type of reasons you outline and many many more :)