Apple has more then just a fancy GUI, it is also rock solid in stability and there is no trojan horses, or viruses, or spyware plaguing it like Windows. If you like command line it also has Terminal that arguably is much more robust then DOS ever was. You are correct that Apple dose not have as many developers as Windows, but we have all the major players like Maya, Adobe, Microsoft etc. Believe me it dose have an advantage on Windows as it is the only computer manufacture for desk top computers that develops it's own OS and Hardware under the same roof. This insures two things not found on Windows, true plug and play compatibility and rock solid stability. I have some very bad experiences with Windows, at one time we got infected by some nasty malware that not even a HP server hardware engineer was able to clear up. I had to reformat the HD and re install and restore all my Apps and data. I will not say the OS X is perfect, but compared to Widows it sure seems that way. I don't even have antivirus software running on any of my Macs at this point. I will not go as far as to state that it will stay that way, but at least Apple is extremely proactive on keeping OS X as safe as possible.