What’s the point of a massive cock if it gets viruses or stops working suddenly? Nothing kills the mood like a forced reboot. Unless that’s what you’re into…

Don’t forget to have a safe word!

itunes stores all your music in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ by default. You can tell it to leave it where it is if you don’t want it to manage it for you. You can also just copy those files to an external drive and give them to someone else if you want. Steve Jobs won’t stop you unless you’ve bought it off itunes and the person you’re giving the music isn’t part of your household.

Like .app files, the iPhoto library is just a series of folders with your photos and a bunch of metadata. You can browse the contents in finder just by right clicking > show contents of package.

Fanboys aren’t blindly in love. Apple just makes great stuff which, for the most part, is significantly better than it’s competitor’s offerings. If there were better products, we would buy them…

So with your primary reason gone, what’s the problem?

I don’t rant about how awesome Apple stuff is because I feel a sense of moral superiority, I do it because as an IT professional and power user, it is the best system I have used and I want my friends to share in that as well. My typical response of “get a mac” when friends are complaining about how their shit has fucked up is because Macs (in my own experience of them) are pretty much without the issues that a lot of people face (like viruses or the latest ubuntu release randomly breaking stuff).
There is very little that bugs me about Macs and nothing that I can think of that is fundamentally wrong. I use computers a lot and I don’t want to spend time getting the thing to work or maintaining. I want to do my own stuff and not have to worry about it all going pearshaped.

There is definitely an element of smugness but that’s because shit just works and I don’t face the headaches that a lot of others do.

There’s no lockdown! in fact there are loads of application that offer lots of tweaking to the base OS, and stacks of open source apps.

On top of that you have root access and terminal, to do, pretty much whatever you like, with all of your sweet linux commands, and no clunky UI.

I’m going to stop typing now.

What? I’m all on board with your OS X hate, but this is wrong. It’s straightforward to use iTunes without “lock-in” – rip to mp3, choose not to copy additions to the iTunes folder – done! Want to get it back, just copy all the mp3s on your hard drive. Simple.