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Agree on the hardware side. When it comes to the software, well, I honestly fail to remember when was the last update of macOS with a single interesting thing
by pjerem 1y ago
Agree on the hardware side.
When it comes to the software, well, I honestly fail to remember when was the last update of macOS with a single interesting thing for me.
Like Windows, every update doesn’t bring anything useful (to me) and just makes things worse.
And I said that as an old tech enthusiast who used to be really excited by OS updates. I’m really far from the usual "I don’t like change" guy, I actually like new things. But all I got in the last 5-10 years was just more walls, less freedom, and not even a single cool thing to help swallow the pill.
So, after 15 years, I’m not buying a Mac anymore, neither an iPhone as my next smartphone (but in the smartphone space it’s worse because you can’t escape the shit).
- andrei_says_ 1y agoAnother macOS user’s perspective here. The value I get from macOS is that it avoids the increasing enshittification of Windows and that it mostly preserves a higher level of ergonomics and consistency than any other os I’ve experienced. It’s secure, does not spy on me, and integrates beautifully with iOS.
- pjerem 1y agoI will agree with you that Windows enshitification is waaay faster. But it’s not like macOS is going in an interesting direction anyway. In fact most macOS improvements are only for the users who are 100% working within the Apple ecosystem (using Apple apps everyday). But those users are better served with an iPad anyway.
- tim333 1y agoI can think of one kind of cool thing for me in that period in that it can kind of maintain iPhone tethering that stays even if you close the lid. Although it's still a bit clunky. The rest I'd be quite happy going back 5 or 10 years. In fact I still miss being able to run 32 bit stuff.