Q&A: CURT, BUY #Apple or #Microsoft? At present, the best work environment I can

Q&A: CURT, BUY #Apple or #Microsoft?

At present, the best work environment I can find is provided by a pre 2016 macbook pro retina, and an iPad Pro as an external monitor and backup computer. And to rely on a Dell hd monitor for screen real estate.

For the next three to four years, I plan on buying and maintaining refurbished 2014-2015 era Macbook Pro Retinas – or until Apple changes course.

Why? I am just too frustrated by problems with Windows computers and too happy with reliability of this generation of Apple Laptops.

As for phones, it’s pretty clear that the iPhone is no longer a competitor to the Samsung and Lumina phones. But as long as I stay within the Apple ecosystem, I will stay with the iPhone simply for compatibility reasons.

I think Microsoft needs three more years to ‘recover’ from the past (at least). I think Apple needs three more years before they correct course – and so we are in a bit of a bad era right now.

I think the ‘malinvestment’ in (a) handheld, and (b) social, and (c) small biz software will also end shortly.

I think microsoft’s experiment with a walled garden (.NET) has been acknowledged as a failure. And that they’ll continue to follow the language market. (if only Java would follow suit).

We are in an era where the bubbles are popping all over humanity.

So my position is to hold tight and buy refurbished macbook pros and to revisit when I see either microsoft or apple succeed.