Yeah, many of us have been happy Apple customers for over a decade. I’ve historically been happy to pay extra for Apple’s stuff because it was in many ways bett

Yeah, many of us have been happy Apple customers for over a decade. I’ve historically been happy to pay extra for Apple’s stuff because it was in many ways better than the competitors. For years, the only laptops you could get that had build quality were the ThinkPad and the MacBook Pro, and a ThinkPad wasn’t much cheaper than a Mac. And the software was better. Trying to get Unix-based software working on Windows used to be hell, and Linux on the desktop was a lacklustre experience, struggling with the lack of drivers for petty much everything, as well the dearth of quality software. Today, those advantages are much less strong. The competition has closed the distance on hardware quality and both Windows and Linux as desktop OSes have improved a lot. Even now, I’d still much rather use macOS than anything else. But I’m a lot less happy being an Apple customer than I used to be. If they lean too much of the goodwill of their fans, they will eventually wear it out. The talk a big game about software developers being their biggest “Pro” audience, but on the other hand they released one laptop after another with crappy keyboards for years, and they don’t put much effort into making the common work flow of a software developer easier. Every developer I know spend most of their working time at a desk, with a laptop, but they’ve done a lot in the latest years to make that work flow more annoying by removing ports, ending the production of good, affordable monitors and forcing us to rely on expensive third-party pseudo-docking stations because they, unlike every other laptop producer out there, refuse to engineer their own docking stations.