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Because MacBooks are just better. (Have owned both.) I have owned, and continue to own, all sorts of laptops and phones. I could rant about Apple all day long

Because MacBooks are just better. (Have owned both.) I have owned, and continue to own, all sorts of laptops and phones. I could rant about Apple all day long online, but in the end their product is simply superior.

philistine 3y ago
Within the corporate monopolist called Apple, that is to say within the minds of all its collective employees, lies an old idea still warm and vibrant after decades of waning indifference. This idea is called Apple Computer, and it makes the best gosh-darn computers in the world: the Mac. It is such a powerful and self-evident idea that those computers are still above and beyond the best ones in the world, even with all those years of indifference.
- xvector 3y ago
  It's obviously an opinion. I have plenty of computers running Windows and a variety of Linux distros at my home. Laptops, desktop, servers, and weird hybrids of the former. Same with mobile - I have tried Android, iOS, PureOS, GrapheneOS. Apple's UX is so far ahead for me. It's just better. But, you obviously disagree. No need to be disparaging.
  - rezonant 3y ago
    Consider stating opinions as opinions, and not as facts.
- radley 3y ago
  Heh, Apple Computer also made the iPhone. Everything since launch has been incremental change, not innovative. Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet.
  - crossroadsguy 3y ago
    Until battery life starts deteriorating any that happens real soon and you can’t even know when it started and where it is currently unlike that of, say, an iPhone. Then it’s unusable — hurrah, buy a new pair. The Apple way! :)
    - yurishimo 3y ago
      This is not unique to Apple. All headphones with tiny batteries in the drivers take the piss after a few years aging. That said, my MacBooks have the best laptop batteries of any computer I’ve owned. My wife went through multiple laptops in the time I kept one in college. Turns out some electronics just suck!
    - evilduck 3y ago
      I have a pair of Pixel Buds, how do I see their current battery capacity and cycle counts?
    - oarsinsync 3y ago
      Are there any wireless earbuds (same / similar form factor as the AirPods) that this doesn’t also ring true for?
  - lenkite 3y ago
    > Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet. Sweet devices that keep falling off your ears. You need AirPod ear hooks to keep them on.
    - averageRoyalty 3y ago
      It sounds like you do, most people don't.
      - lenkite 3y ago
        The people who do are a significant minority just around ~30-40%. Wouldn't be a tremendous market for ear hooks otherwise. There are thousands sold every day on some retail sites and sometimes thousands every hour if discounted. Out of the 2 dozen folks I know who have bought airpods, 8 have also bought ear hooks. That's ~33%. Anecdotal, but you can look at sell figures and the vast variety of airpod earhooks products if you don't believe me - and look at the 10k-100k product ratings.
        averageRoyalty 3y ago
        I am surprised to hear your experience here. Many of my friends have them and only one has ever mentioned a fit issue. He bought larger tips and they now fit perfectly apparently. Researching I can indeed see such products exist, although given Apple appear to be selling over 100 million pairs a year[0] (also surprising to me!), I suspect your estimate is inflated. Note this is over 300,000 pairs per day. Anecdotally, I see people with Airpods daily but have not once ever seen hooks on them. Maybe there's a cultural element at play? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales
rezonant 3y ago
And yet if your statement were true, it would not explain why others who also own "both" disagree with you. Absolutism does not serve you, there are few subjects in this world that lack nuance.
- xvector 3y ago
  My statement is very clearly an opinion.
  - ranguna 3y ago
    > Because MacBooks are just better I'm not sure how that implicitly conveys an opinion. Saying "the sky is blue" is not an opinion when the sky is blue, it's a fact. Saying something is better is also not an opinion, it's a fact. Saying "in my opinion" or "I believe/think/feel like/etc" makes your statement an opinion, ommiting that is ambiguous and is left for interpretation.

philistine 3y ago

Within the corporate monopolist called Apple, that is to say within the minds of all its collective employees, lies an old idea still warm and vibrant after decades of waning indifference. This idea is called Apple Computer, and it makes the best gosh-darn computers in the world: the Mac. It is such a powerful and self-evident idea that those computers are still above and beyond the best ones in the world, even with all those years of indifference.

xvector 3y ago
It's obviously an opinion. I have plenty of computers running Windows and a variety of Linux distros at my home. Laptops, desktop, servers, and weird hybrids of the former. Same with mobile - I have tried Android, iOS, PureOS, GrapheneOS. Apple's UX is so far ahead for me. It's just better. But, you obviously disagree. No need to be disparaging.
- rezonant 3y ago
  Consider stating opinions as opinions, and not as facts.
radley 3y ago
Heh, Apple Computer also made the iPhone. Everything since launch has been incremental change, not innovative. Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet.
- crossroadsguy 3y ago
  Until battery life starts deteriorating any that happens real soon and you can’t even know when it started and where it is currently unlike that of, say, an iPhone. Then it’s unusable — hurrah, buy a new pair. The Apple way! :)
  - yurishimo 3y ago
    This is not unique to Apple. All headphones with tiny batteries in the drivers take the piss after a few years aging. That said, my MacBooks have the best laptop batteries of any computer I’ve owned. My wife went through multiple laptops in the time I kept one in college. Turns out some electronics just suck!
  - evilduck 3y ago
    I have a pair of Pixel Buds, how do I see their current battery capacity and cycle counts?
  - oarsinsync 3y ago
    Are there any wireless earbuds (same / similar form factor as the AirPods) that this doesn’t also ring true for?
- lenkite 3y ago
  > Except Airpods. They're pretty sweet. Sweet devices that keep falling off your ears. You need AirPod ear hooks to keep them on.
  - averageRoyalty 3y ago
    It sounds like you do, most people don't.
    - lenkite 3y ago
      The people who do are a significant minority just around ~30-40%. Wouldn't be a tremendous market for ear hooks otherwise. There are thousands sold every day on some retail sites and sometimes thousands every hour if discounted. Out of the 2 dozen folks I know who have bought airpods, 8 have also bought ear hooks. That's ~33%. Anecdotal, but you can look at sell figures and the vast variety of airpod earhooks products if you don't believe me - and look at the 10k-100k product ratings.
      - averageRoyalty 3y ago
        I am surprised to hear your experience here. Many of my friends have them and only one has ever mentioned a fit issue. He bought larger tips and they now fit perfectly apparently. Researching I can indeed see such products exist, although given Apple appear to be selling over 100 million pairs a year[0] (also surprising to me!), I suspect your estimate is inflated. Note this is over 300,000 pairs per day. Anecdotally, I see people with Airpods daily but have not once ever seen hooks on them. Maybe there's a cultural element at play? 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods#Sales

rezonant 3y ago

And yet if your statement were true, it would not explain why others who also own "both" disagree with you. Absolutism does not serve you, there are few subjects in this world that lack nuance.

xvector 3y ago
My statement is very clearly an opinion.
- ranguna 3y ago
  > Because MacBooks are just better I'm not sure how that implicitly conveys an opinion. Saying "the sky is blue" is not an opinion when the sky is blue, it's a fact. Saying something is better is also not an opinion, it's a fact. Saying "in my opinion" or "I believe/think/feel like/etc" makes your statement an opinion, ommiting that is ambiguous and is left for interpretation.