Wait, what? I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one, and I say that as someone who fully bought into the dream (I used a MBP as my main machine for 2 years, and an iMac as a desktop for that same two years). After those two years where up, I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day.

However, I guess I really don't understand why everyone's getting so uptight about. What we're seeing is not everyone in the world suddenly making a change to mobile for no discernible reason. It's not as though suddenly the winds changed and now PC is mysteriously dying.

No, what happened is what always happens: someone made a better tool for the mass market to do what they want to do, which is to consume content and be entertained. Magic wireless Netflix screens that fit in their pockets are just better at that than PC's are and there's nothing wrong with that. It's evolution, and even as a PC enthusiast and power user, I'm more than glad to see people better able to do what they enjoy.

That's not to say I'll be giving up my hand picked keyboard, large screen, and heavy tower, but I'm not to worried. There's always going to be money in serving the needs of people who get work done on computers, even if it's not quite as much money as it used to be.

> I don't feel the Apple experience is a lot better than the PC one

That comes across like you do think it is better, if maybe not by a lot. But then you write the following:

> I totally went back to PC, built my own desktop, bought a nice Lenovo laptop and called it a day.

I don’t understand. You hated your Macs so much that you bought 2 new computers? If it was just OS X that you hated, you could’ve simply kept the Macs and ran a different OS. So what was it about the hardware that you disliked so much?

Well, after two years it was just time to upgrade and I decided not to renew with OS X. I've gone back to a Windows/Linux workflow and I really enjoy it.

To each their own, but that really didn’t answer any of my questions.

I'm still hoping that moving the consumers to consumer-oriented devices opens up possibilities to make the unfriendly platform (the desktop PC) more poweruser and developer-friendly.