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This seems to be a common position, but a weird one. It seems like you are saying Apple is the best, but you are mad at them, even though nobody can do better.
by prange 4y ago
This seems to be a common position, but a weird one. It seems like you are saying Apple is the best, but you are mad at them, even though nobody can do better.
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- dmitriid 4y agoHow is it weird? They can be both better and bad. It just means that everyone else is worse.
- prange 4y agoIt’s not weird to think it’s the best and that the best is bad. What is weird is to be angry about it.
- nixpulvis 4y agoWhy? My phone is as close to a physical extension of my mind as anything I can imagine ever existing short of implants I'm unsure I would care for. I guess I can only hope we fix these problems before everyone starts putting "smart" contacts in their eyes.
- prange 4y agoSure - but why the anger? Why not direct the anger at Linux. Everyone goes on about how philosophically great it is. Why not be angry that it doesn’t deliver on experience and features?
- ksec 4y ago>Why not be angry that it doesn’t deliver on experience and features? Because Apple practically has unlimited resources and power while Linux and its ecosystem doesn't?
- prange 4y ago“Apple has practically unlimited resources and power” This statement isn’t grounded in reality. If it were, it would make more sense to be angry that they haven’t solved world hunger and ended the threat of nuclear war.
- dmitriid 4y agoWhy shouldn't we be angry about a declining quality of a good product?
- prange 4y agoIt’s obviously not declining. More and more people are choosing it.
- bdougherty 4y agoHuh? How can you draw that conclusion from that data? Just because people are moving to the best option does not mean that option is not getting worse.
- prange 4y agoIt has more features, reviews generally indicate improvements, and consumers are choosing it. Anyone claiming that it is getting worse is making an extraordinary claim that needs data to support it.
- everyone 4y agoIn my experience, talking to a mac user about macs is like talking to a smoker about smoking. U can explain with facts how it's expensive and harmful, but u will never convince them to stop.
- prange 4y agoThe grandparent comment said there is nothing better. Stop and use what?
- everyone 4y ago@prange.. Windows LTSC or any kind of Linux u want, setup exactly how u want, on exactly the hardware u want. You know, like some kind of "personal computer" almost, which you the user have control over and can do what u want with.
- prange 4y agoObviously the commenter I was replying to doesn’t think Linux or Windows are good enough, no matter how you ‘set them up’.
- nixpulvis 4y agoI've been using Linux on my Thinkpads for a while now. As well as many other machines. It does have some issues, primarily when it comes time to integrate with my smartphone, which is the primary issue here. And before someone chimes in, yes I have used both the PinePhone and Purism platforms. They are promising, but not a suitable replacement yet.
- nixpulvis 4y agoExactly! I literally quit my job at Apple shortly after having this realization myself. It's actually a somewhat comical short tale. So there I am sitting at my desk right outside the iPhone hardware team's main conference room. I don't recall who on my subteam I was talking with when an exec meeting was just ending from that room, but I distinctly remember exclaiming "We're not good, but we're the best!" before looking up to see people like my boss's boss's boss and the likes. Yikes. But also, fuck them all, they were probably having a meeting to discuss how they could calm down people about the 3.5mm jack they removed.
- prange 4y agoAre you actually claiming that to be a real event? The only thing of note about it seems to be you personally making a statement at work that honestly doesn’t sound a million miles away from what Steve Jobs or Jony Ive might have said. They were famously never satisfied, even though they thought their products were the best.