Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

Apple is not a platform. Apple is a company. Apple has various platforms. Mac OS X is the most open one, Mobile OS X (iPhone/iPod Touch) is less open, the iPod Classic/Nano OS is not open at all.

Apple may not be a platform but every platform Apple creates is closed.

Bang on the money. It's a shape people like Apple because it's shiny. I think that's literally why they like it. Apple packaging smells and looks nice. Apple products have smooth, lickable surfaces that look like candy, etc. It's all image and zero substance. When I first got my Macbook, it kept crashing every 3 days for weeks, until it accumulated enough updates to stop crashing (which it eventually did).

Furthermore, everyone raves about Mac OS X UI. Well I have it. It's not cool at all. I don't like it. There is nothing great about it. Like the limited app tray, the idiotic default one-button mouse, the short-cut key assignments, are some of the things that bug me regularly. Sure, I can attach a two button mouse, but what if I want to use a built-in track pad? No easy context menu for me then, eh?

All the good things in Apple are borrowed, just like in Microsoft. iPod was a me-too MP3 player. The only thing Apple added was the gloss. You have to admit that Apple has some first rate commercial artists working for them. Arguably the iPhone is somewhat innovative, but honestly, I don't think it is all that innovative, because where would the phones go without Apple? My answer is that they'd get similar features either way, maybe with the keyboard instead of the touch screen. Personally I like to type on keys.

Apple is 90% hype and 10% substance, and the amount of antisocial behavior they display is only rivaled by Microsoft.

We haven't even tapped into the app stores country exclusion yet. Want a free app for your iPhone? Better hope you have a credit card from the same country as the free app was released in.

Bring on Fennec with Add-ons!

Lies, lies, and more lies. Mac OS X is for the most part a FOSS operating system (Darwin,...).
Macs don't ship with a 1-button mouse. The Mighty Mouse has 4 buttons.
Apple creates lots of free and open backend technologies aka "substance", eg. WebKit, OpenCL, ...

I don't own a Mac, yet I know that you just spread FUD.

The one-button mouse era was not so long ago, and in fact most iterations of OSX happened before it existed. And Mac OSX is by no means "for the most part a FOSS operating system". Not without a rather liberal definition of "most". And FOSS for that matter.

@Leo: Go to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Trackpad Gestures > Check "For secondary clicks, place two fingers on the trackpad then click the button". Boom! Contextual menus from the trackpad! Not sure what the "app tray" is, but if you'd like to describe more of your issues, I'd be happy to help.