I have never once criticized the beauty of Aqua. I have never criticized Apple decision to use UNIX, nor have I denied that it is a great piece of work. Judge the beta, not by how it functions, but on the face with which it functions. I don't understand why you don't see that. Apple won't die.
Death is a relative term.
Apple is built on grass roots advocacy. I realize that people who don't have any particular alliance to an OS won't understand this principle, but Mac users fight for their platform and have done so for years. They do things, like go to department stores and configure iMacs, write letters to software companies, boycott hardware companies and sometimes they write articles for public consumption. It may be geeky, but we care about our platform. The Mac has allowed him the technological freedom of self-employment.