An Audit of Microsoft’s ‘Apple tax’ →
Dan Moren at Macworld deconstructs Roger Kay’s bogus whitepaper on ‘Apple tax: What Price Cool?”:
The report bandies about the term “cool” like a four-letter word, but it mistakes the trappings of “cool” for its substance. True coolness is never really about appearance and only those who just don’t get it claim that it is. Apple’s computers are fantastically designed and aesthetically attractive, but that’s not what makes them cool—what makes them cool is what they allow their users to do. And for many, that’s worth a few extra bucks.
Read more deconstructs on CNET, AppleInsider, and others as well.
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This is Microsoft: the same company that published “research” about the real cost of Linux servers vs. Windows.
Sure, any server will cost more than Windows if you imply that they have to use Oracle instead of Sequel Server.
This is old-school Microsoft. I accept that an apple computer will be more expensive than the PC equivalent. But the stability of the OS alone makes up for all the time I waste on Windows trying to keep it stable.