I feel saddened by the pseudo halo Apple software gets to be associated with for no valid reason. While it’s the opposite. Apple software is utterly mediocre an

I feel saddened by the pseudo halo Apple software gets to be associated with for no valid reason. While it’s the opposite. Apple software is utterly mediocre and more or less it has been so. What Apple has managed to do is a disgustingly closed ecosystem and a genius racket of a marketing and has built an aura around itself. It’s so obscene that when it brings a feature on its phone that was available on Android for years, and was released on Android without any fanfare - merely as an essential feature, Apple pushes it, and the media, bloggers, and many users lap it up, as if Apple just figured out perpetual energy. I seriously doubt the scene will be any different if Apple tomorrow announces a mechanical trolley for $9989 and says it runs on Apple exclusive TrueWheel™. It feels such journalists and bloggers live in a different universe and no I’m not even talking about Apple shills (some of them have become “critic” of late; jg et al), I am talking about the ones who are probably not shills. > QuickTime was bigger than Apple itself, so widely known that many who used it on their PCs weren’t even aware that it was an Apple product Alright, definitely an alternate universe.