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Final Thoughts > "... Apple is simply adding new products and updating product lines often times without much thought it seems. This can be seen in the horrid p
by musesum 10y ago
Final Thoughts > "... Apple is simply adding new products and updating product lines often times without much thought it seems. This can be seen in the horrid pen solution found in the iPad Pro where charging it requires you to have a spear sticking out of your iPad."
The above seem like a non-sequitur, but seems apt. I switched from Windows to OSX in 2007 to work exclusively on iOS. In the past year: I abandoned WatchOS due to artificial constraints, discovered that the Apple Pencil has an annoying skid/squeak, and an Auto-update from Xcode 7.2 to 7.3 broke my C++ toolchain. The last, of which, Apple QA has decided not to fix, even though XC 4 thru 7.2 worked just fine. Meanwhile, can't run Cuda on my year old MBP AMD Chipset. I may be switching platforms. Hence the interest in OP's article, including the tangental Final Thoughts.
- davidbanham 10y agoJust switched from the OSX ecosystem to a Dell Latitude in the XPS 15" chassis running Ubuntu. Feels so good to be back on real Linux rather than good-enough-if-you-squint OSX-flavoured BSD. I commend it to you.
- tracker1 10y agoI bought my current rMBP in late 2014, and it may well be my last Apple product... I've mainly been a fan because of the ootb unix support, and the touchpad (that's a huge deal for me). The screens are nice too, but others have caught up, and I can't see detail that well anymore. The SMB/CIFS change from samba is what caught me, that was kind of painful. I finally upgraded to El Capitan, and not sure I like it much better. For the most part, OSX is the one that stands out in terms of how I use my computer... Ubuntu and Windows are closer to each other (with bash) than OSX, and once windows has native Linux subsystem in general availability, I may wind up using it more.