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When this was written I was an Apple fanboy. These days, as a dev, I really don't trust Apple at all. I would never even think of making a product for any of t
by pier25 5y ago
When this was written I was an Apple fanboy.
These days, as a dev, I really don't trust Apple at all. I would never even think of making a product for any of the Apple platforms. As a freelancer I've stopped taking any iOS/macOS projects too. It's not the 30% but Apple's attitude of controlling their turf like the mafia under pretended moral superiority.
As a user I'm as cynical as I've ever been. I use macOS and Windows on a daily basis, and for dev work I generally prefer macOS over Windows. But I'm always running at least a major macOS version behind and never buy any 1st gen Apple product. I simply expect their stuff to fail in one way or another. I've been bitten way too many times to trust them. Nvidiagate, Radeongate, Yosemite, iPad 3, iPhone 4, etc, the list is very long.
Just weeks ago, my wife's Macbook Air (a 4 year old machine) started having issues with the keyboard and trackpad disconnecting. Apple's authorized repair services* say they want to replace almost all the parts (pretty much excluding the screen) and the repair cost is almost as much as buying a new Air.
* Apple Mexico doesn't really do repairs here like in the US so you're forced to go through one of those services.
Or right now, the Apple TV has been suffering issues with Atmos for the past couple of months. There's a thread in Apple's forums with 14 pages of users complaining which keeps growing even though posts are deleted by the mods constantly.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253168177 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253168177
- wil421 5y agoApple in the US kinda stopped doing repairs. They used to replace screens but now they just give you a new iPhone or iPad.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoI assume at some point, technology becomes so integrated and tiny that it no longer makes sense to do repairs.
- ncmncm 5y agoBy which you mean it makes them more money to sell you a new thing than to make repairs possible. I had a Mac 512K, and later a Mac SE/30, where I ran A/UX. I would never, ever buy any Apple product, today, under any circumstance.
- etchalon 5y agoI don't believe that's true. Apple has always had a much more wholesale replacement strategy than other manufacturers. Even back in my CompUSA days, when I was the "Mac guy" in the shop, the other techs lamented how much easier my job was. There was a whole range of problems that Apple classified as a full system swap, where someone like HP would have replaced one or two components. They're still replacing screens, depending on the break. I had a screen replacement last year on my 12. It was just the screen. I believe they're more conservative about screen replacements though, and have a deep enough supply of refurb devices the math might just work out that it's faster/cheaper to just hand the consumer a new device.
- nouveaux 5y ago"It's not the 30% but Apple's attitude of controlling their turf like the mafia under pretended moral superiority." Do you feel the same way with all large consumer corporations or just Apple? Another words, how is Apple different from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, or Adobe?
- pier25 5y agoI guess it's a matter of degree, but personally, as a dev, I think it's much worse dealing with Apple than Google or Microsoft. Adobe... I don't love them either but I don't think they go around waving a moral banner as if they were saving the world. Netflix I don't know, I'm just an end user and I'm really happy with their service.
- freedomben 5y agoI don't mean this as an excuse, but to a big extent Apple has been so successful with their policies and the propaganda behind why their policies are better for the consumer, that it forces Google/Microsoft to copy them. Many of the things the big tech companies do nowadays was an idea originated and proven at Apple previously. Edit: sorry, I meant this as a reply to GP question but I'll leave it here.
- ksec 5y ago>but I don't think they go around waving a moral banner as if they were saving the world. Exactly. That is the big PR difference between Steve Jobs and Tim Cook. That is why forcing out Katie Cotton was a bad idea.
- m348e912 5y agoI bought an m1 macbook pro not too long ago and I love it. But if I got a job where they offered me a choice between a macbook vs a windows laptop for work purposes, I'd take the windows laptop. I just find if I need to get work done, PC/Windows is a slightly better option.
- 8bitsrule 5y ago> 14 pages of users complaining which keeps growing even though posts are deleted by the mods constantly. Wow. They're still doing that? They were doing the same to hundreds of iMac users with slightly out-of-warranty displays going bad ... 16 years ago.
- pier25 5y agoYep. Same happened with the Radeongate of the 2011 MBP 15''.