It's good to hear that. At some point their OS updates did break that tradition. But I do remember people with an old iMac (1st gen maybe) who enjoyed getting OS X support until very far down the road. Considering the pace of change and the limited hardware I was pretty stumped. It was a slower, but usable, and new features made it worth the cost.

Windows rarely felt that way. Linux does feel this way most of the time if your needs are "tech saavy". If people could register that a recent eOS, arch+gnome3 or mint+xfce can make their machine fast, cute and even more functional than ever ... I try to show them but they fall into the grumpy reflex (ewwww that key doesn't do what it did, delete linux !)