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As a non-cult dumb Apple end user, I'm slightly fed up of people talking on behalf of me and telling me what is good for me. The only app I ever paid for throu

As a non-cult dumb Apple end user, I'm slightly fed up of people talking on behalf of me and telling me what is good for me. The only app I ever paid for through the store was Pixelmator (desktop) and that was when it was $10 a number of years ago. I don't have any paid iPhone apps at all. The impact of the store on me as an end user is mostly zero. I haven't had to repair anything yet. I've got phones going back to 2015 which have had new batteries and that's it. I took them to Apple and they sorted it within a couple of hours each time. I had one display issue on a 6s back in 2016 and they just gave me a new phone there and then in the store that day. Also you can buy official parts and equipment to repair your stuff from them as well. I barely use iMessage. It's not a controversy. Everyone here (UK) uses WhatsApp. Half the people out there, even on iPhones don't even know or care what iMessage is. My mac just sort of works mostly. I have a PC too because I have two bits of software I can't get rid of yet. I'd rather use the Mac because it doesn't kick me in the balls every 30 minutes like the PC does. The PC is a dire experience from hell (Windows 11). And I've got a lot of experience with Linux running back over 25 years and then a decade of commercial unix before thaet. I don't want to take the day job home thanks. As for privacy, what other options do I have? It's not perfect but it's the least bad. I either use an android infested with microsoft stuff which is full of Telemetry as well as Google stuff which is infested with advertising and tracking or I use just Google stuff which is infested with advertising and tracking or I get a defanged Android which adds a thousand layers of friction to every day of my life. My position is distinctly "meh" at this point when I hear people telling me what is good for me because they're not telling me that. They're telling me what I am doing is bad for me then going silent when they're asked to cough up a better solution.

notso411 3y ago
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- wait_a_minute 3y ago
  > iOS is great. It also “just works”. Yep. And not just iOS. The way the hardware and software synchronize with each other when you include more devices is just alien. Like when you're using an iPhone with a MBP next to a Mac Mini as well, with a single keyboard/mouse being able to interface in some way or another with all of the devices. You can pull off some very powerful workflows for this and customize very powerful workflows that benefit the user far beyond just what apps can be installed. Apple is amazing and they're just barely getting started.
  - notso411 3y ago
    Spot on. It is a great system. Really one of the great benefits of a “walled garden” But you can do that in linux using this: > weird unmaintained git repository > some kernel level patch > weird bash script that looks like it has a rce exploit in it > weird vim configuration combination > custom build android app because banned on the app store - some hacker news user, probably.
    - wait_a_minute 3y ago
      Haha yeah I think that journey is worth taking into creating your own ecosystem as well, if there's time for it, otherwise having a polished walled garden is good news to me. Like in The Secret Garden. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071/
- hbn 3y ago
  It's impressive the rate at which Microsoft continues to enshittify Windows. If it wasn't for my Steam library I'd love to get rid of my PC and never think about it again. The other day I was trying to trim a video, simple task. Of course, these days Windows has 2 built-in photo/video viewers and I never know which one to use. I tried the first one, and saw a pencil button that usually signifies "edit". It launched me into some app I've never heard of before called "Clipchamp" with an onboarding screen and everything. I didn't want to learn some new app, so I closed it out, closed out the media viewer app (clearly chose the wrong one), and picked the other one. Come a few minutes later and I have an email from Clipchamp, thanking me for using the product. I rolled my eyes and archived the email. A few days later, I get ANOTHER email giving me suggestions for videos I can make in Clipchamp. They signed me up for their fucking mailing list! Because I tried to edit a video with their built-in app on their OS! God I hate Windows.
  - wait_a_minute 3y ago
    Yeah, they need to significantly streamline Windows or else it will stop being valuable.
worik 3y ago
Yes, if the choice is Mac or Windows It is faint praise indeed

notso411 3y ago

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wait_a_minute 3y ago
> iOS is great. It also “just works”. Yep. And not just iOS. The way the hardware and software synchronize with each other when you include more devices is just alien. Like when you're using an iPhone with a MBP next to a Mac Mini as well, with a single keyboard/mouse being able to interface in some way or another with all of the devices. You can pull off some very powerful workflows for this and customize very powerful workflows that benefit the user far beyond just what apps can be installed. Apple is amazing and they're just barely getting started.
- notso411 3y ago
  Spot on. It is a great system. Really one of the great benefits of a “walled garden” But you can do that in linux using this: > weird unmaintained git repository > some kernel level patch > weird bash script that looks like it has a rce exploit in it > weird vim configuration combination > custom build android app because banned on the app store - some hacker news user, probably.
  - wait_a_minute 3y ago
    Haha yeah I think that journey is worth taking into creating your own ecosystem as well, if there's time for it, otherwise having a polished walled garden is good news to me. Like in The Secret Garden. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071/
hbn 3y ago
It's impressive the rate at which Microsoft continues to enshittify Windows. If it wasn't for my Steam library I'd love to get rid of my PC and never think about it again. The other day I was trying to trim a video, simple task. Of course, these days Windows has 2 built-in photo/video viewers and I never know which one to use. I tried the first one, and saw a pencil button that usually signifies "edit". It launched me into some app I've never heard of before called "Clipchamp" with an onboarding screen and everything. I didn't want to learn some new app, so I closed it out, closed out the media viewer app (clearly chose the wrong one), and picked the other one. Come a few minutes later and I have an email from Clipchamp, thanking me for using the product. I rolled my eyes and archived the email. A few days later, I get ANOTHER email giving me suggestions for videos I can make in Clipchamp. They signed me up for their fucking mailing list! Because I tried to edit a video with their built-in app on their OS! God I hate Windows.
- wait_a_minute 3y ago
  Yeah, they need to significantly streamline Windows or else it will stop being valuable.

worik 3y ago

Yes, if the choice is Mac or Windows It is faint praise indeed