https://nytimes.com/interactive/...

What do you expect? :)

This is actually good, but the productivity losses are seen over a institution/organisation and not personal level ... so I think even if I bring runfrodorun into this, he would say personally, it won't do me any harm as I have got this and that

"10% of other readers chose to drop Apple first.
I guess shiny baubles just aren’t your thing, eh? I saved Apple for the middle of my list, but you insist you can do without an iMac, Macbook, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and of course, most monumentally, the iPhone.

And it’s not just hardware that’s on the chopping block. Other companies now make very well-designed phones and computers, but none of them run iOS or MacOS, still the best consumer device software on the market. And finally, depending on the circles you run in, you might have to deal with social opprobrium: What will your friends say when you lose access to Apple’s messaging service and your texts start coming in green?"

Why the fuck is Apple deemed so essential by so many people? There is literally not one thing they have that warrants keeping them.

Also clearly this list does not cater to techies or devs at all. Best consumer device software? Hah! Only for simpletons. Social opprobrium? Like I give two shits?

I dropped Microsoft fourth too :)

@Koolstr yea that was my view too. Apple stuff just works for most people, but to a lot of us is like a jail cell... You can't do this, can't do that...

@billgates precisely. 😊

34% dropped Apple last...

...okay, wow. Far too many Apple sheeple out there.