Yeah, the thing that makes any OS useful is having useful applications, and I've been lucky enough to put together a good solid collection of apps that let me be quite productive within Rhapsody.
Sadly these apps are getting more and more rare as time goes on. Developers who were willing to sell me apps a few years ago can no longer create activation codes for their software. This forces everyone else to use either the freeware apps or non-free apps in demo mode within Rhapsody.
I even tried to buy an extra license of OmniWeb a couple years ago (because I hated having to close out of OmniWeb on one system before starting it on another (my 8600 and ThinkPad are both running Rhapsody and can see each other over the network), but the Omni Group wasn't able to sell me the additional license.
Or in the case of TIFFany3, I wasn't able to give that one away for free because the developer had signed an agreement with Apple not to distribute it after Apple bought it. That is why I can provide TIFFany II for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, but not TIFFany3 for OPENSTEP/Rhapsody/Mac OS X.