Apple has been making huge mistakes in their Mac strategy. From the outside it seems they got drunk on the iPhone success.
With the exception of the iMac 5K and maybe the Mac Mini, I'd say the complete Mac line of products is now in worse shape than ever. It started decaying around 2013 with the trashcan Mac Pro and the gradual death of the Apple pro apps (Motion, Aperture, Final Cut, Logic, etc).
Regardless of the mediocre state of Mac hardware I love macOS. Although I agree that Windows is in great shape now and is only getting better.
I hope Apple is changing course and it's only taking so long because it is difficult to steer a huge ship into a new direction.
Also, there is very little innovation in the OS space. While 10 years ago it fealt as if Apple was seriously pushing OS X, it seems to be more in a maintenance mode now. The only larger innovation was APFS, a welcome addition, but primarily developed for iOS.
The end of OSX was signaled by the iPad. When the iPad ended up just a large phone and not running a real OS for getting shit done, it was clear where Apple wanted to head.
Apple has been making huge mistakes in their Mac strategy. From the outside it seems they got drunk on the iPhone success.
With the exception of the iMac 5K and maybe the Mac Mini, I'd say the complete Mac line of products is now in worse shape than ever. It started decaying around 2013 with the trashcan Mac Pro and the gradual death of the Apple pro apps (Motion, Aperture, Final Cut, Logic, etc).
Regardless of the mediocre state of Mac hardware I love macOS. Although I agree that Windows is in great shape now and is only getting better.
I hope Apple is changing course and it's only taking so long because it is difficult to steer a huge ship into a new direction.