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The thing that keeps me "locked in" to Apple's products is that I like them better than the alternatives. But the moment that stops, there's nothing keeping me
by ant5 16y ago
The thing that keeps me "locked in" to Apple's products is that I like them better than the alternatives. But the moment that stops, there's nothing keeping me from moving over to Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.
Me too, but there's a problem here. The alternatives are so bad, Apple can rake me over the coals in terms of things like iphone-lockdown and I still won't leave because Apple is still better (in my relative, entirely biased, personal opinion!).
I would jump ship in a second, but there's nothing I think is worth jumping to.
- joeminkie 16y ago"I would jump ship in a second, but there's nothing I think is worth jumping to." When I hear someone say this it seems more like the lock-in is coming from within them not from Apple. If you can't find another setup worth jumping to you must not care about Apple's policies, etc as much as you say.
- ant5 16y agoI never said the lock-in came from anywhere but from "within" me. Allow me to simplify: (apple user experience) - (annoying policies) > (everbody else's user experience) Now, this is just my opinion. You might think Linux on the desktop is great, or Windows doesn't make a bad workstation. But I think everybody else has such a godawful UX, I don't know where else to turn. If someone else managed to couple a great UX with polite policies, I'd switch. Immediately.