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Nah. You get to be a $1T company by making excellent products that have no competition and adding excellent support on top of that. I recommend you to try it. I
by LolMaybeTryIt 4y ago
Nah. You get to be a $1T company by making excellent products that have no competition and adding excellent support on top of that. I recommend you to try it. I also used to hate on Apple, but now I think I used to be silly or even dumb; it was a huge lesson in trying what I hate first for a few weeks before I go on the internet spouting uninformed speculation.
The iPad I gave my grandmother is the best specced, fastest (other tablets with similar specs are not even nearly that smooth) and cheapest thing at the same time I could get her. She can use it perfectly well (but had big problems with inconsistencies on Android). I don't have to worry about her doing something to it (whereas the Android phone, which I locked down, still had to have factory resets every year or so - and support non-existent, updates gone).
The MacBook Air M1 I got for myself is running laps performance-wise around my other computer with i9 - and it doesn't even need a fan, and I can work 2 full days (16 hours) on a single charge - doing Node.js and React Native development so nothing lightweight. The display has no competition, period - and that alone would be a reason to prefer Apple. The keyboard is the best from modern laptops too (yeah they used to have problems there, not anymore), and the sound is godlike. This computer also has much better price-performance ratio than any other option on the market, and there's not a single comparable product for that price ($1200).
The iPhone is the same story, don't want to repeat myself.
- mechanical_bear 4y agoThey are excellent products, (I’m typing this from my iPhone 12 Pro Max), but Apple does many things which are anti-consumer.
- LolMaybeTryIt 4y agoFor sure. For example, I am not happy about their push to (i)cloud, fortunately it's entirely possible to avoid all that - unlike Android, where getting Google cloud functionalities disabled is impossible without losing the warranty and flashing the ROM.
- dmz73 4y agoJust don't sign up for Google account and you don't get Google apps. Your phone is not as usable as it is with Google but it does work as a phone. Can you use iPhone without App Store and Apple account? I know Google collects data on their users but so does Apple, probably more so now that they are pivoting to services as the main focus. Apple just gets the free pass from their users because they haven't used the collected info so far. But it IS just a matter of time before they start and then all their users will experience the power of that fully operational battle station.