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My relationship with Apple at this point is like a homeless kid who got adopted by a nerdy eccentric parent in 2002, who taught me UNIX and gave me a little pla
by digitalsushi 8y ago
My relationship with Apple at this point is like a homeless kid who got adopted by a nerdy eccentric parent in 2002, who taught me UNIX and gave me a little place to code; but lately that parent has been off listening to music with people who don't care about any of this, and when I ask this metaphorical parent for something I need, they wave their hands at me without looking and say "yeah, yeah, there's some new laptops under the stairs in a box, I'm busy, ask me again in a year". And I say, "you can log in with a blank root password", and I hear them sigh and mutter something about even giving me an OS at all.
- sahin-boydas 8y agosame here..
- some_account 8y agoSomehow I don't think corporate Apple has quite the same romantic view of users :)
- rch 8y agoMention something about CUDA being important for your job and they'll completely lose it... perhaps by throwing away all the furniture and replacing the couch with a soft blue orb that starts pulsing if you play the Black Eyed Peas.
- ThJ 8y agoMy story is that Windows was getting on my nerves and Linux didn't have the creative software that I wanted, so I sought refuge in macOS, which turned out to be better for programming and content creation than anything I had ever used in my life. And then Steve Jobs died and Apple abandoned that user segment in favour of the iPhone. I think Jobs saw Mac as his brainchild and refused to neglect it, whereas Tim Cook has no such emotional attachment to it.