What made you choose Apple?

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    See that’s not what we’re talking about here. what’s cool in the apple ecosystem is I can copy something on my iPhone to the clipboard and then press cmd-v on my Mac to paste it (Or visa versa). It’s these little continuity things in the ecosystem apple haters don’t even know about I think. Another example, if I place my iPad next to my Mac I can push my mouse cursor of the screen onto the iPad, grab a file, drag it back to my Mac. Wirelessly.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      By the way, I am an apple hater because I tried apple after years of using Linux and it was a true mess. Here’s a story: I had to make an app building CICD pipeline and guess what? We had to run a macbook as a server because they fucking cannot share at least a VM for building. A CLI command brought up a GUI confirmation. How should I automate something that brings up a GUI. Garbage. Package management is horrible. Command line utilities was outdated. Case insensitive filesystem. Then Ruby…

      And it’s not enough that they are shit, but they are actively holding back innovation. They held back PWAs for example. And they shit on open-source. They are the definition of vendor lock-in.

      They look good though.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        See that’s fair criticism and I understand where your frustration comes from. That indeed sounds like a oversight.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Sounds cool, but not enough to get me to buy a macbook and iphone (I’m assuming it doesn’t work with android).

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Oh no I get that, it’s definitely a nice-to-have not a must-have. And it’s those little things I personally am willing to pay a premium price for. It just negates the argument of “doesn’t work with windows, I don’t like apple”. No it doesn’t but then again android doesn’t do this either.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            But the list goes on: https://www.apple.com/macos/continuity/ and you can probably do many of those things, but the smoothness and how it all just “magically” works I’ve never experienced on other OSes. But then again, is it worth the premium price? Probably not for most people. Also, you can’t miss something you never had. But if you ever experienced it, you will feel you are stepping down if you leave the ecosystem.

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              If the smoothness included my existing hardware then I would probably pay for the premium experience.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It works between android and any linux distro through kde connect. It let’s me do more than just clipboard sharing. e.g.: I could remote control my laser engraver through it.