“Call this column “confessions of a reformed Apple hater.” I’ve spent the better part of my career insisting that Apple products were not for me–this after my first job in tech was reviewing them for the now-defunct Mac Home Journal. The company was too controlling, the prices too high, the forced upgrade march too abusive, the closed system too limiting.

Now, just a week ago, I traded in my fourth Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy Nexus) for an iPhone 4S, which just about completes the cycle of Apple in my life. I bought a MacBook Air to replace a balky HP laptop running Windows Vista. I own an iPad because, well, what other tablet would I own? I have an iPod Touch almost solely to power a Bose sound system (and because I wanted to Facetime with my son back before I had the iPhone). And the other day, when my mom was complaining about startup times, printing, and wireless networking, the words, “you should get a Mac” were out of my mouth before I could stop them.”

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57379818-256/why-apple-is-winning/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title