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Apple silicon Macs have been many people's favorite computers they've ever purchased (myself included) and blew out the value proposition for buying practically

by hbn 2y ago

Apple silicon Macs have been many people's favorite computers they've ever purchased (myself included) and blew out the value proposition for buying practically any other computer, unless you specifically need Windows for some reason. iPhones have gotten so good they can barely come up with anything new to add year-over-year. Young people in the west are almost exclusively buying iPhones because people like them. They basically own the tablet space, if you're looking for a tablet there's almost no reason to go with anything other than an iPad. Same for smart watches, they make the best selling watching in the world. For the amount of devices they move, they're shockingly reliable and have a smoother customer support / coverage system than any other company I've had to deal with. That's why people keep coming back. It's pretty bizarre to say they're in decline. The only area I can see active decline is how badly they let Spotify eat their lunch with music streaming when they used to basically own digital music distribution.

fourfour3 2y ago
Exactly. The 2016-2018 models were the low point, but Apple has listened and has improved since then. The 2019 16” was a step in the right direction. More ports, better cooling, better keyboard. The M1 Pro/Max line up brought back HDMI, MagSafe, SD card slots, and are seriously fast, quiet, & cool. The M2 and M3 releases have been iterative performance improvements and haven’t made any stupid decisions. Apple’s also invested development effort into useful tooling for developers like their virtualisation framework - this has made Docker on Mac vastly more pleasant for instance.
pdimitar 2y ago
If you find my statement bizarre then you're either super lucky or haven't paid much attention. Even their Photos app started making mistakes since iOS 18.
seec 2y ago
People buy their hardware for entirely different reasons than what you make up. They have financial success but that doesn't mean much. I have had 2 Apple Watch and I mostly find it to be a deeply flawed poorly thought product, especially for the price.

by hbn 2y ago

fourfour3 2y ago

Exactly. The 2016-2018 models were the low point, but Apple has listened and has improved since then. The 2019 16” was a step in the right direction. More ports, better cooling, better keyboard. The M1 Pro/Max line up brought back HDMI, MagSafe, SD card slots, and are seriously fast, quiet, & cool. The M2 and M3 releases have been iterative performance improvements and haven’t made any stupid decisions. Apple’s also invested development effort into useful tooling for developers like their virtualisation framework - this has made Docker on Mac vastly more pleasant for instance.

pdimitar 2y ago

If you find my statement bizarre then you're either super lucky or haven't paid much attention. Even their Photos app started making mistakes since iOS 18.

seec 2y ago

People buy their hardware for entirely different reasons than what you make up. They have financial success but that doesn't mean much. I have had 2 Apple Watch and I mostly find it to be a deeply flawed poorly thought product, especially for the price.