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Ben Hammersley’s phrase rather than mine, but oh, isn’t this a really really good idea. And it’s also a Mac-only thing. Which makes me gnash my teeth in frustration ‘cos I haven’t got (and don’t have much prospect of getting unless Santa is going to be really generous this year) a Mac, as well as making me wonder if there isn’t something brewing at the moment.

All the really innovative stuff at the moment seems to be either Mac-based, or open-source (or both). Time was that I used to think of Macs as “nice to look at, but what would I do for software?” - now it’s starting to look like it’s actually the other way around. There seems to be less and less reason for running Micro$oft platforms at the back-end, and less and less reason for running Windows as a front-end, if you’re prepared to accept the switch-hassle. While the tradeoff between Wintel and Mac was always loaded the Windows way, it’s starting to change - there’s only really Outlook that’s keeping me as an Office user, and everything else that I’m running on my laptop is available either open-source or as a Mac version. The time to switch could be upon me - and if it’s upon me, how many others are thinking the same way?

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