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As you note, the title is simply wrong. I'm not entirely sure that the anti-fanboy rant is completely misguided, but it ignores the fact that Apple's products
by musicale 3y ago
As you note, the title is simply wrong.
I'm not entirely sure that the anti-fanboy rant is completely misguided, but it ignores the fact that Apple's products - iPod, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, etc. - transformed their respective categories. Cult-like followers and marketing weren't enough to turn iPod Hi-Fi or AppleTV into huge successes.
The mobile software market seems like a nightmare, while paid desktop software seems to have been largely replaced by web apps and monopoly subscriptionware. I'd like to hope there are some opportunities, since I'm greatly turned off by mobile monetization hell and bloated and unresponsive web/electron/etc. apps, and the only software I'm even slightly tempted to subscribe to is Apple Arcade.
(For games I'd rather pay $30 for a game without gacha microtransaction hell - that's why the Switch is my main gaming handheld; I'm also annoyed that many of my purchased, not-exactly-cheap iOS games are no longer playable due to Apple's complete comtempt for backward compatibility.)
I've always thought StopTheMadness looked great but I'm part of the problem since I can't bring myself to pay for it. I also have trouble convincing myself to pay for any Safari extensions on macOS.