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Dont pray, just dont buy Apple Products
by nix23 6y ago
Dont pray, just dont buy Apple Products
- Skunkleton 6y agoIt's a frustrating road we are headed down. Tech companies have gotten so big that they don't really have to work together using standardization anymore. Options are limited, and most are anti-consumer in one way or another.
- nix23 6y ago>Options are limited No not really, but limited is the mindset of peoples.
- gabereiser 6y ago>No not really, but limited is the mindset of peoples. I'd argue options really are limited. Your counter argument assumes one can just roll their own OS with the same features and functionality as current-gen OS's. That's quite a leap. Options today are Windows, Mac, or some flavor of Linux if you can get it to work. Linux aside, Windows and Mac both are making it so you no longer own the OS but are "subscribed" to it. Making it easy for them to implement anti-consumer strategies to lock you in.
- fsflover 6y ago> or some flavor of Linux if you can get it to work Do not try to get anything work. Just buy preinstalled.
- a1369209993 6y agoBuy preinstalled from where, exactly? (And no, chromebooks are not linux for any practical purpose, although they probably would be easier to install a real linux system on.)
- fsflover 6y agohttps://system76.com https://system76.com https://puri.sm https://puri.sm https://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed https://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed and many more.
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoThe alternative is what? System76 makes a decent laptop but they don’t have a repair center in every major city. I buy Apple computers because of the hardware support and integration with iPhone. Speaking of iPhone, the open options are at best abysmal for privacy (at least orders of magnitudes worse than Apple) and at worst part of planned obsolescence that creates e-waste much faster than Apple devices. Fun fact, at least for now, you can still buy a Mac and boot Linux. Probably not true once Apple silicon hits but that’s a sad day for anyone who liked boot camp.
- solatic 6y agoYou respond as if the majority of buyers do not already have alternatives for Apple laptops and Apple phones.
- fortran77 6y agoThe alternative is Windows 10 on a wide variety of hardware, or Linux.
- throwaway2048 6y agoWindows 10 has even more invasive spyware nonsense.
- nix23 6y agoNot the Enterprise/Education edition.
- throwaway2048 6y agoThat you can't legally acquire outside of a commercial support contract.
- wayneftw 6y agoyou can buy it right here for 299 https://www.trustedtechteam.com/products/windows-10-enterprise-download-license https://www.trustedtechteam.com/products/windows-10-enterpri...
- munificent 6y agoBoycotting is not an effective strategy for addressing oligopolies. You need actual strong anti-trust regulation.
- y7 6y agoHear hear. All "just use an alternative" does is temporarily shift the problem. And then tomorrow an article appears highlighting Windows 10's invasive telemetry and people say "yeah just use macOS".
- anamexis 6y agoI think in both cases, people generally say "use Linux".
- brimstedt 6y agoI have been using windows, apple and Linux (KDE) on a daily basis and handle all os' quite well. KDE is by far my preference and in general I don't think neither windows nor macos has fewer problems despite the price tag. After hearing the "it just works" mantra of apple users for many years I was surprised to find I had at least as many glitches on the Mac as I did on KDE (win 7 was better, 10 has more problems ime). (I use my computers for development and sysadmin, not gaming or art)
- fsflover 6y agoSee also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831699 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831699
- curiousgal 6y agoRegulation will never be ahead of corporations. Regulators always play catch-up. Seeing how, at the end of the day, all these company care about is profits, hitting them where it hurts will make a difference. That being said, Linux is available, and it's perfectly usable by people who would be bothered by Apple's dev policies.
- ineedasername 6y agoWhat's the alternative for the typical user? Windows has its own problems, and let's face it: market forces on this sort of thing or any other practices by the two of them have not driven people to use desktop Linux instead. For most people, there's simply no reasonable option to switch to that would avoid these things or employ market forces to get these companies to change their ways.
- nix23 6y agoI'm not a "typical" user so i dont care.
- pmarreck 6y agoSo basically you provided a suggestion that only works for you.
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- ineedasername 6y agoThen you have provided a solution that is not generalizable. Which is fine, but not particularly useful to this conversation.
- nix23 6y agoUse Linux or any other free OS, personal preferences are normaly not generalizable.
- _-david-_ 6y agoDepends on what the typical user does. I would guess a lot of people would be fine with a Chrome Book.
- ineedasername 6y ago
- darthrupert 6y agoYeah, I don't think so. I fought with technology since my late teens, and I'm just too old for that shit now. I have maybe an hour to spend on freetime every day and I want to spend exactly 0 seconds of it battling with my devices. Apple gives me that. Ubuntu gives me that these days in some limited sense too, but not when you factor in AppleTV , phone, pad, homepod and airpod and the watch.
- nix23 6y agoHave Fun then, i have fun with my even less fiddli tech..like a normal watch, a real stereo and no pods....