A Fanboy’s Letter to Apple

Dear Apple,

I have been mostly a die hard Debian/Ubuntu desktop user since the late 90's until you swept my feet away with your Darwin based operating system called OS X in the mid 2000's. Ever since then, I was a loyal fan of yours. Not only were you able to do mostly what I needed from Linux to fulfill my technical demands, you also ran Microsoft and Adobe software that was rather essential to my professional life. I was even able to play a fare share of World of Warcraft which helped me bond with many of my friends and co-workers. Perhaps what’s even more attractive about you is that your hardware was an artistic masterpiece that functionally proved itself to be superior to the rest. Remember when I walked into my first RDS meeting at Microsoft and told a room full of principal and senior engineers that you were the fastest machine out in the market for Windows?

Needless to say, you can probably guess that I have been disappointed with your recent products as partly because you have obviously focused more and more on the mobile side of your business instead. I am also sure that Steve Jobs having left us might have something to do with it too but I would like to somehow believe that Steve was a level 5 leader rather than a 4 which I hope that you will prove me right in the late summer hardware event.

Meanwhile, having no alternative choice, I am holding on to my decked out 2012 Macbook Air with my dear life until it will no longer serve its purpose. Though I have a sneaking suspicion that 2 months is all it has got left in it and that the 6th Gen Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon is looking more and more attractive by the day.

So will my next machine be yours or Lenovo’s? I can’t wait to find out.

Sincerely yours,

A fanboy, his companies, clients, and friends - all with a pinky finger holding on to the ledge