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Apple's walled-garden is becoming quite large and it might be the case that they don't have enough engineers to tend that garden at the moment. Apple is, howev
by Expez 14y ago
Apple's walled-garden is becoming quite large and it might be the case that they don't have enough engineers to tend that garden at the moment. Apple is, however, not a hardware company, they're selling an entire ecosystem to their users. It is in their best interest to make sure the user's entire experience is pleasant, so you can feel confident that someone does care.
I would suggest you leave for greener pastures, but Job's genius was such that you're probably not even considering that: it would mean giving up all the content and apps you've bought.
- firedev 14y agoI wish, but sorry, what pastures? Everything else is even worse. And I am a web-developer, not somebody who buys stuff because it looks nice.
- mberning 14y agoIf the greeness of the pasture is defined by how well 'things just work' then there are no other greener pastures. You would be trading one set of bugaboos for another.
- Expez 14y agoMy Android devices 'just work'. I also advice novice users to buy Windows for their laptops, even though I, personally, prefer Linux. Windows gets a lot of crap from more advanced users, but it's amazing how everything 'just works' on that platform considering the huge amount of software and hardware that is supported. My mom bought herself an iPhone earlier this year and has been very happy with its usability, but I would never, ever, let her install anything but Windows on her laptop.
- mberning 14y agoWhat kind of novice user buys a laptop and questions changing the OS, or even knows what an OS is, or that there is even an alternative? I think you claims are ... dubious. Novice users, like my grandmother, never ask me if they should install Windows. They just ask me to fix it after it breaks. And it breaks often. On the contrary, when I put something like an iPad in their hands I go a lot longer between support calls. That's my experience having dealt with more than a few 'novice users'.
- Expez 14y agoYou are right, novice users don't install operating systems, but most laptops come with one pre-installed. Not knowing any better they could simply go by aesthetics when they select computers. In this case they are likely to end up with an Apple product: the computer itself, as well as the UI, looks very good. edit: I was a bit confused by your reply, but I now see why: I wrote 'install Windows' when perhaps should have written 'use Windows, or 'buy a computer with anything but Windows'. My mistake!
- moakleaf 14y agoMy relatives' Windows PCs always break and it is always a real pain to fix them. There are also problems on the Macs in the family, but they are generally more wrt. 3rd party software. It is far from perfect in Mac-land, but definitely much better than Windows. It is not a "just works" platform!