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What could have ruled
(lemmy.ml)
Not seen: the 100,000 USD bill for the Apple Car
Alt text: A cartoon photo of a "Windows" car that is in need of maintenance and care, and an "Apple" car that just has an on/off switch
I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management
In my uneducated opinion it's two prongs:
Average person doesn't want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.
Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.
It's a wildly successful strategy.
I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.
There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.
Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files
I’m an Apple user. I used to enjoy tinkering with my system (this was in the days of System 7 and ResEdit), but now I just want it to work unobtrusively. I don’t want to have to think about my OS; I want to concentrate on what I’m doing with my OS. Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.
Personally, I don’t give a shit about luxury, but then, I’ve never cared about that in any context.
That's true if all of your devices are apple. I have Windows and an iPad, and it is unnecessarily frustrating to get the iPad to communicate with my PC. Apple keeps insisting on getting in the way.
I hella feel that but re: phone on my end. I have tons of Windows machines and a couple Linux boxes and I don’t want to have to muck about with my phone with custom ROMs or… anything.
I don’t want to think about my phone. I’ve got a five year old iPhone that runs like the day I got it, and I’ve got all of my texts from 10 years ago and 20k+ photos. I’ve never reformatted it.
Apple gets a lot of hate on Lemmy but damn are their phones exactly what I want.
Funny how it is, to me the window management of macOS is atrocious and constantly gets in the way — an issue I don't have with Windows 11. In a matter of fact, the window management in windows is awesome.
Yeah, that’s why heated OS debates bother me. Some are better at certain things, others are better at different things. Just use what you like. It’s not worth getting angry about.
I'm a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They've done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it's nuts. I've tried the same on Linux, and there's just nothing out there that can match it.
Allegedly, Pipewire is a lot better at that now, you should give it another try!
I'll try it again when I build my new desktop this week!
Let me know, I'm genuinely curious!
Sure thing!
If open source projects had the marketing budgets of apple (and as early as apple did), they'd be in the spot instead. Hell, chromeOS tried, and kind of succeeded with it's Chromebook, but they still didn't market it like Apple.
But Apple did some crazy effective shit, like donate full computer labs to schools. Hook em while they're young!
which is what apple is doing in the education field in germany currently. almost giving ipads away to schools and large companies with a lot of apprentices.
the only problem is they gave apple products to future electronics technicians. we all hate them (except for the few apple fanboys).
an ipad is basically a regular tablet with a fancy-pants processor that you will never use to its full potential, horrible battery life, made out of expensive materials, with the most locked down OS ever.
i've actually had to use my personal phone for work stuff that the ipad was just too locked down to do.
Ha, that's interesting. And I felt the same way, having already been brought up with Dos and Windows at an early age, when they pushed iMacs in class, I groaned. Now, it's a whole other animal with the tablet and phone generation (with a few exceptions where a district will opt to get a Chromebook which is, honestly, significantly worse!)
And also, charging a bougie price for it.