Thurrott's not stupid. Weird, but not stupid. He knows what a product lifecycle is. He just likes to pretend he doesn't so he can slam Apple. Here we're supposed to think the fact that Microsoft finally introduced a decent smartphone OS years after the competition is a good thing. Sure, Paul.

Since making the transition from its buggy Mac OS past to the more durable and reliable Mac OS X, Apple has delivered a decade's worth of minor, purely evolutionary updates, and Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is just the latest.

Maybe this is splitting hairs, but the Macalope would contend it wasn't so much the Classic Mac OS that was buggy. It was third-party extensions that were buggy and continually caused conflicts. Still, late in its lifecycle, the overall experience was a buggy one.

People buy Macs for the beautiful hardware, not the lackluster OS X user experience.

There's the Windows enthusiast shining through. Well, more like through. Like a banana slug.