According to some fucknuggets in the comments here, the reason Windows 8 utterly failed was poor marketing.

Right.

And the reason communism failed was because they picked the wrong logo colors.

Sure.

Windows 8 failed because it was completely hostile to 99% of its user base and anyone who needs to get actual work done. That some people who only click on YouTube videos and LOLCat pictures find it perfectly acceptable means nothing. They would’ve found a fucking Etch-a-Sketch acceptable.

I’ve been using MacOS for the past few days somewhat frequently and despite some small niggles, it is a great OS that makes things easy that should be easy, while still allowing power users the ability to do what they need to do.

In other words, it is a masterfully-designed OS that perfectly balances functionality, elegance of presentation and power.

Meanwhile, Windows 8 is a perfect turd of an OS that balances 1994-like AOL looks, the elegance of a Lada, and the power of a broken pop gun.

Really no comparison at all.