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There really is very little to celebrate in Windows. OSX had/has a belief in quality (even if Apple didn’t always live up to it, and lately they’ve shredded the HIG altogether) that inspired devotion in a way Windows never could.

In addition, OSX has always had a strong culture of customers willing to pay for quality software, that has allowed independent smaller companies to flourish. There is no such equivalent in Windows. The Windows culture appears to be one of providing shareware, that was cracked and used for free by individuals, and developers were ok with it because they actually made money from enterprise users who would pay up.



I disbelieve having software cracked are favorable by any developers who spent countless sleepless nights coding with sweat and blood




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