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> For years, many of us have willingly paid the "Apple tax", the premium price for Apple products justified by superior user experience, design, and ecosystem i
by tempodox 2y ago
> For years, many of us have willingly paid the "Apple tax", the premium price for Apple products justified by superior user experience, design, and ecosystem integration. But if software quality continues to decline, this value proposition becomes increasingly difficult to defend.
Just today I was thinking how the best hardware gets crippled by software that has become as shitty as Microsoft's.
By now it has become incredible that “Doesn't Suck” was once motto and slogan for the user experience on Apple devices.
- lostlogin 2y ago> as shitty as Microsoft's. If I ever feel down on the Mac, I can go to a PC and try make a pdf or view one. Clunky AF. Mac software might be at a low-point, but it hasn’t burnt down yet.
- zimpenfish 2y ago> If I ever feel down on the Mac, I can go to a PC and try make a pdf or view one. After a restart (which happens a lot because the machine crashes a lot[0]), my Windows 10 box won't be "ready for use" for a good 10 minutes. I've seen it take 30 minutes. I've done macOS updates that have taken less time. Oh and macOS doesn't randomly reboot to apply updates. Still haven't found a way to prevent Windows from doing that. [0] I suspect the 3080 but it frequently crashes when idle on the desktop which shouldn't be stressing anything GPU-wise.
- tacker2000 2y agoThere is a tool called Windows Update Blocker which i use on a Win10 server that i run: https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/ https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/
- jeroenhd 2y agoI don't really get this criticism. If I want to make a PDF, I open up Word and save as PDF. To open it, I double click the file. You can save anything you can print as a PDF since what, Windows 7? And the OS comes with a PDF reader since what, Windows 8?
- dsego 2y agoAnd Word comes bundled by default on windows? > And the OS comes with a PDF reader since what, Windows 8? Which one, the Edge browser? Don't you have to install Sumatra PDF or Acrobat?
- p_ing 2y agoWord isn't bundled by default but you can print anything to PDF. Windows ships with a PDF printer installed, so you could print from Notepad to PDF if you'd like. PDF readers haven't been required for over 10 years? Chrome shipped with a PDF viewer eons ago and of course the old version of Edge and current Chromium Edge (and now Firefox, as of a week or two ago) have PDF viewers. macOS Preview is limited to PDF 1.4. That kind of sucks. Not a deal breaker for most PDFs, but I've come across one or two that won't render and I had to figure out why.
- lostlogin 2y agoPreview is vastly better than any stock Windows reader. It lets you read, edit and share nearly all PDFs. I can’t recall every getting stuck.
- p_ing 2y agoYes, most PDFs are version 1.4 or less until you get into the business world where more complex PDFs requiring a 2.0 reader exist. That said, the Edge PDF viewer also lets you read, edit, and share nearly all PDFs.
- lostlogin 2y agoI do it in windows near daily. It’s slow, taking a long time to open and a long time to make them. I’ve tried using the browser, notepad and Word. I’m surprised you find it fine. It’s more clicks and slower at each step than on a Mac.
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- gamblor956 2y agoJust today I was thinking how the best hardware gets crippled by software that has become as shitty as Microsoft's. Apple software has always been crap. People put up with it because the hardware was nice and shiny and distracted from the many bugs and severe UI issues.