Why the Mac will suck in 5 years

Ask any die hard Windows user what the problem is with Windows and many of them will tell you that Windows itself is fine if you know how to use it, the problem comes with users who do not know how to keep up with their system and who do not know how to follow basic security steps to keep it free of malware. I myself used Windows up through Windows XP and the only times I ever met with problems was when my roommate would screw it up by loading strange software or by trying to modify thing that he had no clue about. The Macintosh has not had to deal with those sorts of problems because many of the users were longtime Mac users and were familiar with how the computer ran and because there were very few if any viruses or malware programs for them to install. Windows, as the default operating system of the vast majority of computers that were available to consumers everywhere from high-end computer stores all the way down to the local Wal-Mart, was cursed in a manner of speaking by having the vast majority of new computer users start out on their system. People who are not technically inclined in the least bit were turning on their new Windows machines, logging onto the internet with their Internet Explorer, and start playing with email and opening attachments without looking. With users like that it is no wonder that Windows had such horrible security and why people had generally negative views of the operating system. Well, now many of those people are turning in their Windows computers and moving to the Mac under the false idea that the Mac will be so elegant and flawless that they will never have another computer problems and that things will “just work” for them. But those users who couldn’t master the basics of Windows will have the same problems trying to figure out the Mac. As the Mac continues to grow in popularity the number of Windows users who had bad computing habits will bring their problems over to the Mac platform and then blame the Mac for their problems rather than ever attempting to change their own habits. In five years there will be a growing rumble about the problems of OS X led largely by these types of users - they will say that the Mac sucks and after they get fed up with it, then the Linux users can look forward to the coming storm of angry users looking for the next great computing platform that has been heralded as being rock solid and easy to use. They’ll screw that up too.