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Yeah it completely blows my mind the amount of technical people that choose apple as their platform. It really is total lock in trash.
by nwellinghoff 3y ago
Yeah it completely blows my mind the amount of technical people that choose apple as their platform. It really is total lock in trash.
- kanbara 3y agosome people dont care about lock-in. i like that my iPhone and mac work together, i can text from my computer, share all my apps/data across oses, and that macOS gets out of the way to let me do my work. 95% of what i do is in the terminal, and the typeface rendering and emulators are great. apple silicon performance is mindblowingly good
- nwellinghoff 3y agoRight. But high quality interop does not require lock-in. You can have the same integrated experience without the intentional hampering of interfaces if you mix.
- mark_l_watson 3y agoI agree that the lock-in is not good, but their trap is a nice one: I use Apple’s Pro Display XDR with 10 bit color depth and 6K resolution. It is just so good that it shuts down any other display tech I have used. The pain point is that this expensive monitor really only works well with my MacBook Pro or my iPad Pro. I have several Linux laptops I enjoy, but no using the Pro Display XDR with them. The other Apple trap that I am unable to ever give up is my Apple Watch. It is so great to be able to leave my phone at home and still get calls, and messages from my family. BTW, if you like this article, also read Cory Doctorow’s new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. As someone who feels caught in Apple’s silk traps, I feel this book at least gives me strategies to deal with all the tech giants. It is not just Apple that is the problem!