Nobody else sells nice, super-useable, high-end UNIX personal workstations.
Agree with your point -- Apple is a developer-hostile company and their OS is bad for people whose work involves tinkering with computers. Still the best development platform, though, which is a sorry state of affairs.
You could have a stable free environment that will work for a decade or a proprietary one that's designed to cause older computers to break and require expensive upgrades. For various reasons many people love the latter.
I also don't mind having excuses to upgrade my hardware but I dislike being driven forward by planned obsolescence, which is basically how every piece of Apple hardware I've ever owned has ended its life. Exploding batteries. Horrible one-way OS upgrades. I thought it'd be helpful for art and music software, but I found the opposite. I thought it'd be good for programming but had to invest absurd amounts of time in installing basic open source development software. Never again.
I'm not totally sure how exploding batteries and optional OS upgrades are driving you forward through planned obsolescence. I feel like maybe in your apparent "rage" you lost the logic thread of the point you actually wanted to make and conflated a few things into an incoherent rant.
+1, and yet my post got downvoted to oblivion, lol. I'm sorry I bothered all those developers at starbucks with their macbooks and their hard-to-prononunce coffees.
