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It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built. I switched from Mac to Linux precisely for this

It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built. I switched from Mac to Linux precisely for this reason and the biggest surprise has been that whenever I touch a Mac again it feels like poverty. Not because the UX is bad but because I know how the company behind it operates and I have zero trust for anything that happens on the machine.

tyre 3y ago
> It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built. > Not because the UX is bad I don’t see the connection. The first sentence says that walled gardens create bad UX, but Macs are the premier mainstream walled gardens and you don’t find their UX bad.
tw04 3y ago
I dunno, the last two generations of MacBook pro pretty much feature for feature provide fixes for all the widely criticized issues of the last Johnny Ive models. Apple has plenty of faults but they seem to actually be listening to user feedback in some areas despite a captive audience.
- conradfr 3y ago
  But you can't run Windows or Linux (not sure of the state of Asahi) on it anymore.
  - homarp 3y ago
    natively. But can you really blame apple for Windows not having an ARM version? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-using-windows-11-with-mac-computers-with-apple-m1-and-m2-chips-cd15fd62-9b34-4b78-b0bc-121baa3c568c https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...
    - Rohansi 3y ago
      Windows does have an ARM version. You can even run it on the Raspberry Pi 4. That article is just about Apple's hardware specifically.
mschuster91 3y ago
> It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built. Which is why the EU has decided to break up the walled gardens - although IMHO they could ramp up their efforts a bit.
lghh 3y ago
> reduced incentives to invest in user experience Using my Apple Silicon Macbook is a way better user experience than my Intel Macbook ever was. It certainly feels like they invested in user experience well after the walls were up around the garden.

tyre 3y ago

> It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built. > Not because the UX is bad I don’t see the connection. The first sentence says that walled gardens create bad UX, but Macs are the premier mainstream walled gardens and you don’t find their UX bad.

tw04 3y ago

I dunno, the last two generations of MacBook pro pretty much feature for feature provide fixes for all the widely criticized issues of the last Johnny Ive models. Apple has plenty of faults but they seem to actually be listening to user feedback in some areas despite a captive audience.

conradfr 3y ago
But you can't run Windows or Linux (not sure of the state of Asahi) on it anymore.
- homarp 3y ago
  natively. But can you really blame apple for Windows not having an ARM version? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-using-windows-11-with-mac-computers-with-apple-m1-and-m2-chips-cd15fd62-9b34-4b78-b0bc-121baa3c568c https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...
  - Rohansi 3y ago
    Windows does have an ARM version. You can even run it on the Raspberry Pi 4. That article is just about Apple's hardware specifically.

mschuster91 3y ago

> It also creates walled gardens and reduced incentives to invest in user experience once those walls are built. Which is why the EU has decided to break up the walled gardens - although IMHO they could ramp up their efforts a bit.

lghh 3y ago

> reduced incentives to invest in user experience Using my Apple Silicon Macbook is a way better user experience than my Intel Macbook ever was. It certainly feels like they invested in user experience well after the walls were up around the garden.