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As an Apple user, I really wish they had competition. I'm a long-time Linux user too, and that ain't competition. I still use Windows a little for work, and per
by brimble 5y ago
As an Apple user, I really wish they had competition. I'm a long-time Linux user too, and that ain't competition. I still use Windows a little for work, and personally for gaming, and wow, is that ever not an alternative to what Apple offers. I'm tentatively hopeful for Fuchsia, but 1) It's Google, so will a non-high-effort/high-jank version exist that isn't first and foremost a spying platform? and 2) Android's not all that good and never has been, though to be fair (I suppose) they acquired that.
As it is, when Apple fucks up (which is often!) I survey the "competition" and decide that, no, I don't want to take on four new problems for every one I avoid.
- chaostheory 5y agoI agree and I feel that you’ve summarized the landscape better than I did
- brimble 5y agoI take the state of things as more a strong indictment of the rest of the industry, than Apple's being super-duper awesome. Turns out pretty-good is, like, way better than the rest. :-( I guess that's what you get with a market of this shape, having very few viable options, all mutually incompatible, plus all tied in with perverse incentives from other parts of their various vertically-integrated behemoth-corporations—even Linux suffers from what sure looks like some fire-and-motion action from Red Hat, I assume aimed at keeping them on top in the support & consulting game. Ubuntu tries something similar off-and-on, but just aren't as good at executing on those plans and have mostly failed. Really, one of the most remarkable things about Apple is that they do a good job of aligning most of their own incentives with things that provide some kind of significant benefit to users, even if it's arguably only as a side-effect.