Updated my iPhone to iOS 11.03 last night.
Update finished... and I was asked to enter my iCloud password.
I entered the correct password... and was told to go to one of my other devices to "approve" my iPhone. ?!?!
Maybe I'm old, but that's a PITA. 
So I go get my iPad Pro, no... the approval code isn't on that one. 
I get my wife's iPad, no... the approval code isn't on that one either. 
I go to grab our third (oldest) iPad... and the battery is essentially dead.
Now, I'm getting annoyed.
I entered the correct iCloud password, let me use my **** phone.  
A microcosmic example of why I'm not an Apple fan

I don't use Microsoft Account for my PCs (prefer some autonomy from MS).
 
Yeah, the 32Bit iPads are going the way of dinosaurs.
My (oldest) iPad-2 is used live to trigger bits of audio.
Going to have to replace it in the near future...

fwiw, i own and use an ipad air, but i do think apple are too proprietary, with a forced upgrade cycle often requiring new hardware, and the os is too dumbed down for my liking, and they're too expensive

A Rant.
With a MAC (or an iXXX) its basically a "closed" system and there are not the 10's of thousands of possible hardware configurations for a Windows PC.  Apple controls their hardware and software.  There are third party software apps but the machines and the OS are all Apple.  With a Windows PC, and until recently, Microsoft did not make the hardware and control it like Apple.  It made the Operating System and it had to run on the multitude of possible hardware configurations - some 100% compatible, some "mostly" compatible, some "marginally" compatible but it runs on most of these.  Thus stability of the Windows OS is dependent on the hardware compatibility.  Apple (mostly) does not have these issues and thus the "warm and fuzzy" stable systems to host DAW's or whatever. 

tlw

pwalpwal
fwiw, i own and use an ipad air, but i do think apple are too proprietary, with a forced upgrade cycle often requiring new hardware, and the os is too dumbed down for my liking, and they're too expensive

A full-blown Unix-based multi-user system is "too dumbed down"?

 
I believe he's talking about iOS (not OSX).  
In trying to make certain things "simple"... (IMO) Apple has over-complicated and made the situation tedious.
ie: Access to files should be direct... not convoluted and not requiring iTunes.  Connect, drag, drop...
 
Speaking of which, Apple is frequently updating iOS (which isn't long-term a bad thing), but it often takes time for App developers to catch up.  As with your Windows printer example, this often leaves App features broken (or at risk of failing).  I use OnSong live... and have to be careful not to install iOS updates before a gig.

2012 mac pro, is not a 2013 mac pro.
and if so a mac pro is a mac pro of 2013...he got support, and warranty for it if bought from a registered store, no doubt?
 
And what caused the burning of it?...has not been entered to the causing...perhaps no APC, or surge surpresion used on electrical?...if having so much issues with devices?
 
MS OS win10..and the third party people, sure making troublesome code to undo user settings, ram games down the pipi pipe, and bing still doing what it does do, if not hiden more so deeper into...to get the id, data, and surfing info, spending habits, and turn the OS into a store front...if not also slanting markets with such intel...may be insider trading methods also to consider being tied to....develop for the troubles ahead to sell a cure, with paid tech support of course...tied to third world penny paid people, and penny pinchers, and all the scamming also, to get the phone calls for, that intel sold to fourth party people..???
 
 
....Well here where I am, they have abolished the penny, so some might not get paid at all?..or is it supposed to be rounded up to 5 cents raise?
 
 
Just hope this one post, is not removed by those who do that sort of thing, just witnessing again today....for liking my Mac Pro 2013 and El Capitan os and daws that do not drop the audio at all...nice clean multi
tracking...and rendering...once tweaked....is a refreshing move away from the hair pulling crackles and pops...witnessing now to say.
 
What ever solution works for the user...use it.
 
 
And stop removing posts please...it shows a underhanded silencing of the truth be told by both if not all sides of any witnessing done to solve for!
 
Cheers.

Since I don't mind working on a PC to upgrade it if needed the main reason I stick with the Windows 10 PCs is they are really cost effective.  I have less than $1000 in an i7 desktop PC in my studio, and it has been extremely reliable and runs Splat and Vegas Pro without breaking a sweat.  Loading the drivers to get it up and running for everything was really no big deal since I had to install software anyway.  Nothing against the Macs, but just not worth the money for me.

I'm used yo working with windows, linux and mac. I'm mostly neutral, but do find the closed world of mac limiting at times, yet appreciate that same closed system does allow for a more stable environment. It just has never justified the price vs performance factor for me. I will always get damn near twice the processing power going pc vs mac. Stability has never been my issue since i do most of my personal computing on linux

Like several here, I used a Mac a long time ago. That computer was a gift, I should say it was a new, out of the box gift. It never had any real issues. It was great for basic getting around the web and if it had been a better model it probably would have made a great music computer too. I'm not really qualified to give a detailed comparison on the new Macs. It wasn't the computer itself that made me start using a PC. It was mainly the price and the fact that most everything about it was done "in house". About the same time I got a really good deal on a PC kit at Tigerdirect, so when it was time to change, I bought the kit and built one myself. This was back in the late 90's.
 
That put me on the trajectory  I've been on ever since. When a PC gets long in the tooth, I simply upgrade it.
 
What has changed since then is computers are way more powerful than they once were, making many off the shelf computers more than capable to run Sonar for a home recordist. There are people using i3 chips in laptops for simple projects. i5 chips for some of the heavier jobs and we regularly see i7's  in use running large studio projects. You can get an i7 with 16gb of ram and a decent hard drive in a store bought PC. Many PC companies will let you pre configure and order it online. A laptop with an i5 is capable to do many home studio chores with ease.
 
I seem to be the type of person that can zero in on a problem and solve it quickly and maybe this has helped me more than I know with PC's. I naturally get technology. Case in point- Recently I was sent on a job at my work with three techs standing there scratching their heads over a problem. I had the issue fixed within 10 minutes.They had been there for an hour. This seems to happen with some regularity. I've been told I had the "magic touch". More likely, I just found the likely problems and zeroed in on it quickly for a fix. 
 
I heard an interesting concept recently concerning mind over matter. Apparently, there are some people who could break anything no matter how well it worked before they showed up. Others seem to have "the touch" to make things work. This has been proven in studies believe it or not. Apparently we can somehow shape our surroundings to some extent. This gets into quantum physics and I can't tell you how or why it works, but it seems to work to an extent and affect our surroundings. I heard about it through this author on a podcast. Mind Over Matter
I probably disagree with a lot of what he says, but I do think there is something to it.
 
Maybe you know someone that can just show up and things stop working  Those people could break a Mac or a PC. 
 
 

My PC has never taken hundreds of my old songs from vinyl I've recorded to WAVs and changed them to a proprietary format that can't be unlocked and changed back to anything I can play on anything other than an old Ipod.  That is a couple of weeks of work just pissed away since I use my PC to listen to music, or my Windows phone in the car.
 
I'll probably buy a (nother) Ipad soon for music work (my wife has both of ours) but I'll keep my listening music off it.  Once bitten, as the saying goes.

Starise
Maybe you know someone that can just show up and things stop working  Those people could break a Mac or a PC.  

My wife works with one such. She goes through a couple of work-issued laptops a year on average. The suspected cause of her computer-killing ability was she never seems to grasp things like dropping a running laptop six inches onto a desk will do the spinning HDD in it no good at all. Early this year they switched to new laptops with SDDs. The computer destroyer has already killed one....

As for Macs vs PCs, both have their advantages and disadvantages. The system that I think would have been superior to both had it been continued with was the Commodore Amiga OS. Back in the early 90s an A1200 could run rings round IBM PC clones and Windows 3 and had a superb multi-tasking OS for the time.

Unfortunately Commodore ended up in the hands of someone who if awarded the advertising account for KFC would have filled billboards around the world with “please eat our greasy, warm lumps of dead birds”.

Such is life, nothing is perfect.

Well, what's new. Apple has always had glued up computers. And glued up phones. And glued up paraphernalia. I don't mind. I love the way they don't separate software  from hardware, or make hardware separated from software. It's the only company I know that combines both in one (glued up) package. So i'll be going for that new glued up iMac Pro, sure as hell. 
Did I like Apple more when I started with them in the eighties and they were the little man? You bet. Do I think Apple was more creative and original back then? Yep. 
Do I believe Apple still leads for musical creation? Another yep.
It's  their idiosyncrasy that does it for me. Even now.
But I hate adapters and the loss of phone jacks.
Maybe that's idiosyncratic too.

IMO, Apple should re-design the iMac so that the user can quickly/easily swap out the boot drive.
It's just poor engineering to have to peel off the entire glass screen to swap out the boot drive.
At the very least, provide a back-panel to access a M.2 slot.  
Purposely engineered to force users to the Apple Store.  
With a PC, a drive-swap is a 5-minute task.
 

Regarding "Mac exclusively" in professional studios:
 
Mac computers are seriously lagging behind the curve of hardware development.
 
Composers who are pushing the limits of hardware (usually composing for TV/Film/Video Games) are literally forced to use custom PCs... because they can't get the hardware they need from Apple.
Was talking with Fred Coury about this during our last conversation.
Many of the top LA composers (Fred, Danny Lux, etc) get together once a month to discuss their craft/tools/etc.
Of this group, even the most die-hard Mac users are running custom PCs as VE-Pro "Slave" machines.
We're finishing up a VE Pro Slave (as we speak) for Trevor Howard. 
Trevor is a Mac guy... but needs more power/flexibility.
 
Mac machines are sleek/slick... but (ironically) not particularly well suited for the "power-user".
 

Oh... and disposable