But it's the corporate behavior of Apple that drives me nuts. Imagine the outcry if Microsoft somehow could force all PC makers out of business at a whim, leaving only Microsoft-branded hardware available to buy. But it's not even enough to have an authentic Apple-branded system. The new OS may refuse to install, or may install and trash your drive. Many lost valuable work, and others lost a great deal of time or money.
Hard drives are pretty generic.
There's no mystery to them, no new standards and practices to be worked out. I mean, if we were talking USB or DVD issues, I could understand it. Putting the best possible face on this problem, it looks like colossal incompetence to fail to provide decent hard drive installation routines. Man, I'm glad Apple has a tiny market share. It would be a horrible, expensive, choiceless computing world if they were in charge.