I tried finding software on OS X, and I could find many pieces of software by searching for them in the App Store application. Also, the app store seems to combine download and install with marketing, as it was heavily promoting OS X Lion at the time of my visit.
I also learned that OS X Lion solves the problem where after a reboot your program state is gone, something that Bill Gates was also complaining about.
OS X Lion costs 24 euros and that, among other things, is why Apple is eating their lunch (but I do like Visual Studio and .NET).
The price of a Lion upgrade is pretty much immaterial, as the relevant price of OS X is really bundled into the price of the hardware. You cannot buy a Lion DVD and install it on a non-Mac PC.
It is if you care about staying withing legal bounds and thus respecting their EULA.
Also, OS X is not designed to run on any hardware, like Windows or Linux -- basically you have to ensure that you get the same configuration that Macs have, or you're sure to run into trouble.
This means that if you already have a desktop or a laptop, you most definitely won't be able to run OS X on it, at least without pain; instead you're far better off buying new hardware and you're even better off going for an original Mac instead, or just not using OS X altogether.
I mean, yeah, I know some people are happy with their hackintoshes, but it has been a poor experience for me and I just reverted to my reliable Ubuntu / Windows combo.
I'm currently failing to install Lion, since it gets as far as the restart stage, and (from what I can gather) is attempting to create a recovery partition, fails, and thus doesn't install.
All workarounds I've seen so far seem to indicate that I need an external device of >13G which must be formatted in the process (making me exceptionally nervous about trying to repartition my current USB external backup disk)
I also learned that OS X Lion solves the problem where after a reboot your program state is gone, something that Bill Gates was also complaining about.
OS X Lion costs 24 euros and that, among other things, is why Apple is eating their lunch (but I do like Visual Studio and .NET).