Seriously why would anyone be running for the Apple store now?

Here in Singapore, the de-facto standard notebook is the macbook pro.

I'm a Linux professional with a background in UNIX. OS-X is BSD, so it has to be good, right? Wrong!

If you have been reading any Apple forums, or watching the news, you know that so far iOS 9.0x, and El Capitan have both been disasters.

Prior to El Capitan the mac had Yosemite. It was also a disaster. The iPhone had "iMessage-gate".

I bought a macbook air last February, and the experience has been pretty bad. First the Wi-Fi did not work. The "Genius Kids" could not figure it out. Their answer was to wipe OS-X and re-install. It was later determined that my Bluetooth devices were the problem (only Apple can come up with a device that loses Wi-Fi connectivity in the presence of Bluetooth devices! Good design verification guys!).

Next the I got hit with the "update loop". Yup the same three (summits four) apps updated every few hours. The "Genius kids" first tried "re-indexing" then they wanted to wipe, and re-install OS-X again. How many times must OS-X be re-installed on a brand new macbook?

I finally manually deleted iMovie to stop it from updating. I later killed spotlight and erased all the indexes. That permanently broke the app updates, but hey it is better than using up all the bandwidth on apps that keep updating.

I finally got my macbook stable!

Are you still looking to buy Apple? Why? It is a vanity thing, right?

Added (1). I think Apple is "bottoming out" again. You know, like back in 1987!

Added (2). So if you are computer user, OS-X is satisfactory, but if you are a professional (that means paid to be a geek), then it is an utter failure? I guess that makes sense.

The answer is: Surface Book

Because millions of people manage to use them all day every day without any problems. Which is why they top customer satisfaction ratings year after year. Having run Yosemite on several Macs here without any problems have updated them to El Capitan without any problems - but then I'm not a Linux professional (whatever that is).

Apple was great when Steve Jobs took everything under his wings. Now it's all ruined by Tim Cook. That's a bad apple XO