It's disappointing to see this comment at the top of this thread considering the amount of work that Apple has poured into OS X over the last few years. Criticism is great, but comments like "Apple continues to apply lipstick to the OS X pig" just seem hyperbolic and unhelpful. For example, one of your specific criticisms is that their FDE solution is "hack-ish" but I have no idea why you'd think that, e.g. look up Core Storage (which is what enables their FDE support and their Fusion drives) and their security whitepaper on how the FDE works under the hood. It looks like a well-thought out and developed feature to me. I also don't understand why, e.g., students, artists and hackers-who-like-unix are considered examples of "small groups with eclectic needs" when really those three groups together probably make up a large chunk of OS X's user base, so it makes sense that development would be focused towards them?