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My husband is up to his eyeballs in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks, iMacs, Apple TV, iPhones, homepods, airpods, ... He has it all. I feel like the idea that Ap

by skerit 3y ago

My husband is up to his eyeballs in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks, iMacs, Apple TV, iPhones, homepods, airpods, ... He has it all. I feel like the idea that Apple products work seamlessly together is a bit of an exaggeration. He gets frustrated with Apply products plenty of times.

ksec 3y ago
It is not that Apple's ecosystem is perfect. Far from it. It is the others are so bad, so poorly designed and handled is what made Apple felt so good. That is both Microsoft and Google.
lotsofpulp 3y ago
There is definitely a lot of half-baked stuff in Apple's ecosystem, but relative to the alternatives, it works well enough. One of the great features is that, typically, everything works again after power cycling. And if that does not work, you can go to Apple's tech support website/app and schedule a call where they will walk you through the troubleshooting.
ketzo 3y ago
It's a generalization, but the Apple ecosystem is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else. It's kind of a "suffering from success" thing because it is generally so seamless that any disruption is extra-annoying.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago
  >generally so seamless that any disruption is extra-annoying. Precisely. If I moving things between my iPhone, iPad and macbook is super easy. But if I want to talk to/from windows I've been using a one person group chat on Signal, and it's still pretty clunky. I used to use pushbullet but it shut down or something.
  - itsibitzi 3y ago
    In case you're not aware, Signal has a chat called "Notes to Self" that should be more or less the same thing, except without having to create a group.
    - Vicinity9635 3y ago
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- sleepybrett 3y ago
  yeah when it works 99% of the time that 1% is VERY VERY ANNOYING. When you are in the google ecosystem everything works like 5% of the time and so you just pretend it doesn't work together.

by skerit 3y ago

ksec 3y ago

It is not that Apple's ecosystem is perfect. Far from it. It is the others are so bad, so poorly designed and handled is what made Apple felt so good. That is both Microsoft and Google.

lotsofpulp 3y ago

There is definitely a lot of half-baked stuff in Apple's ecosystem, but relative to the alternatives, it works well enough. One of the great features is that, typically, everything works again after power cycling. And if that does not work, you can go to Apple's tech support website/app and schedule a call where they will walk you through the troubleshooting.

ketzo 3y ago

It's a generalization, but the Apple ecosystem is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else. It's kind of a "suffering from success" thing because it is generally so seamless that any disruption is extra-annoying.

Vicinity9635 3y ago
>generally so seamless that any disruption is extra-annoying. Precisely. If I moving things between my iPhone, iPad and macbook is super easy. But if I want to talk to/from windows I've been using a one person group chat on Signal, and it's still pretty clunky. I used to use pushbullet but it shut down or something.
- itsibitzi 3y ago
  In case you're not aware, Signal has a chat called "Notes to Self" that should be more or less the same thing, except without having to create a group.
  - Vicinity9635 3y ago
    [dead]
sleepybrett 3y ago
yeah when it works 99% of the time that 1% is VERY VERY ANNOYING. When you are in the google ecosystem everything works like 5% of the time and so you just pretend it doesn't work together.