OK, I'm perplexed.  I've been a mac user for almost 30 years.  My entire ecosystem is Mac and I remained with mac through the dark 90s.  What apple has does in the past 2 years is unbelieveable.  I just upgraded to 10.86, then 10.9, no end of problems

OK, I'm perplexed.  I've been a mac user for almost 30 years.  My entire ecosystem is Mac and I remained with mac through the dark 90s.  What apple has does in the past 2 years is unbelieveable.  I just upgraded to 10.86, then 10.9, no end of problems.
I can no longer mirror and of my monitors VGA or HDMI, my itunes which supplies iphone and ipad has disabled podcast app so that I can't listen to my favorite programs and I find out after the fact that Office software is not compatible with OSX 8.6.
Forget about the fact that itunes looks like it was developed by a 1980s MS-DOS programmer.   Its kludgy, limited and generally does not work.
What does one do?  Frankly, I used to use macs because they were like info appliances that just worked.  Now the time to manage tech glitches from the company has become way too costly.  Sadly, Apple has become Microsoft and Microsoft seems to become Apple.

"... as do the users who are downloading recent OSXs in record numbers."
USUALLY YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DOWNLOAD UNTIL YOU HAVE IT !!!
APPLE USED TO HAVE GREAT STUFF BUT OBVIOUSLY TRIES TO INVENT FOR THE SAKE OF INVENTING !!!
THIS IS ACTUALLY A STEP BACKWARDS (TO MS).
CALENDAR & CONTACTS SYNC VIA ICLOUD ONLY IS AN ABSOLUTE NO GO !!!
@APPLE: FIX THIS ASAP !!!

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