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> As soon as you can adequately explain why there are people that are vehemently anti-Apple, you will have the answer to this question. Oh, oh! I know this one
by MetaWhirledPeas 5y ago
> As soon as you can adequately explain why there are people that are vehemently anti-Apple, you will have the answer to this question.
Oh, oh! I know this one.
Apple's devices are extremely closed. This is antithetical to the spirit of personal computing. But this is only one component: what ultimately pushes Apple to generate an anti-Apple crowd is the combination of them being a closed platform, them using every dirty trick in the book to suck users into their closed ecosystem, and them being extremely successful at it.
Want to make an iOS app? Buy a Mac. No, not an old Mac, a new one.
Want to send proper messages to an iPhone user? Get an iPhone. Or convince them to install Signal. (I'll wait! LOL.)
Want to make a video call to an iPhone user? Get an iPhone. (Or ask them to install Duo, haha!)
Want to install Mac OS? Buy our hardware.
None of this would matter so much if we were talking about coffee makers. But we're talking about personal computing, a very central component of our nerd lives. If you're a youngster you're probably happy with occasional hardware replacement and messes of dongles, but for many of us our computing experiences are rooted in opening up the box and switching the guts around, or booting different software on the box, and we don't especially appreciate having to constantly battle the hardware vendor to make this happen.
Apple products seem to be very high-quality. But that's not really the point.
- rmbyrro 5y agoI'm developing a Godot game and it's really ridiculous I need a Mac to compile it for the MacOS and iOS. I can compile for EVERY PLATFORM from my Arch Linux, just not for Apple stuff. It's ridículous... This kind of behavior reminds me of Ballmer's Microshit.
- krapp 5y agoSo just don't offer a version for Mac, and if anyone asks why, tell them you're not going to buy a 400 dollar Macbook just to use as a compiler.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y agoWhy do Apple products require special treatment when everything else works?
- 0xabe 5y agoYou forgot a 0 ;)
- rootusrootus 5y ago> If you're a youngster you're probably happy with occasional hardware replacement and messes of dongles, but for many of us our computing experiences are rooted in opening up the box and switching the guts around, or booting different software on the box, and we don't especially appreciate having to constantly battle the hardware vendor to make this happen. I'm pushing 50 and 35 years ago I was building PCs (and selling them, too!). I love building PCs. Still do, it's fun. Tinkering is very enjoyable. I technically have more Linux machines than Macs (though admittedly that requires counting Rasberry Pis). But. For my 'daily driver' computing, I'm pretty happy in the Apple ecosystem. They sell me 'just works' with a polished interface and I can focus my tinkering on the stuff I want to tinker with. And by infecting my extended family with this opinion, I've lowered my technical support load quite a lot. It's the same reason that years ago I stopped modding my daily driver car, and moved that passion into a hobby instead.
- MetaWhirledPeas 5y agoThat's fair. Some of us just hold grudges I guess :)
- antihero 5y agoI think every dev should rock a Linux setup at least once in their life but for me I prefer to make stuff than be a gardener
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