I would rather use a device from a hardware company than an ad company.
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To be fair, the hardware is excellent. Overpriced as hell, especially considering that you can’t upgrade it yourself and the prices Apple charges for RAM and storage are ridiculous, but you can’t really argue with the quality. The locked-down, inflexible software and basically forcing you buy into the whole ecosystem if you want your devices to work together is the issue.
Well, I’ll go ahead and argue about quality then.
- butterfly keyboard nonsense
- macbook pro flexgate
- antenna-gate, or “you’re holding it wrong”
- any of Louis Rossmann’s videos recommending against Apple devices
Apple products are fashion devices that work pretty well most of the time. I don’t think they’re the best by any stretch, but they have a consistent design aesthetic and pretty complex engineering (and that complexity is where problems lie).
Anyway, buy what you like, just don’t delude yourself into thinking they’re a step above everything else. Google Pixel has a better camera, ThinkPads have better keyboards, and AMD MiniPCs (e.g. minisforum) are more compact. Buy what fits your needs, but don’t just knee-jerk buy Apple because it’s “better,” whatever that means.
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You first.
Privacy, security, reliability, creative focused design, powerful hardware and software, great customer support, ease of use from GUI to Terminal (zsh and bash)
I don’t
We don’t control macOS, iOS, anti-libre software (it fails to include a libre software license text file, like AGPL), so it’s never private, secure or reliable. A great example of dangers to avoid. That’s why I like it. 🚩
Having been a Mac user since the late 80s I don’t like Apple per se, but the design ethos that seems to leak into other applications. This Ars Technica review from 2004 is a great example
This is an example of the best kind of peer pressure. There is simply a “climate of excellence” on the Mac platform. Any developer that does not live up to community standards is looked down upon, or even shunned. Commercial, open source, freeware, shareware, it doesn’t matter: pay attention to detail, or else.
This has definitely changed since the iPhone became their biggest product, but it still has a more polished feel than competitors.
Because I don’t use it
Because windows is not preinstalled
Because they’re not Google.
And dog shit isn’t cat shit but I still won’t eat that.
In this day and age you’re forced to pick either; choose.
Cope
Lmao
Nah.
I have:
- Pixel phone with GrapheneOS and no Google apps (yes, the Pixel is from Google, the irony isn’t lost on me); old phone was Motorola; hope my next phone is a Linux phone
- ThinkPad laptop running Linux
- custom Linux desktop
- Tuta for email
- DDG for search
The only Google stuff I use is Drive and maps, and I’m actively replacing drive with NextCloud.
There are more options, you can avoid Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Whether you want to is a separate issue.
Because they are great in pies that you can have for dessert with some ice cream or a glass of milk.
I will give apple credit, if you drink the kool aid and full send into their ecosystem? Their product line is almost unmatched.
But it all only works in exactly the way apple intended- so it really limits what you can do with such expensive pieces of equipment.
Exactly, which is why I’m willing to recommend their products while also not wanting to touch them myself.
Why I got a iPhone: I detest Google and I have had very bad experiences with Android devices losing software support after only a couple years - some not getting any major updates at all. My cell carrier also had a clear-out special going for the last gen models.
Why I got a Macbook: the Apple silicon Macs blow Windows laptops out of the water in terms of horsepower and battery consumption. Second-hand M1 and M2 devices can be picked up now for reasonable prices. It is a nice change of pace as Microsoft is completely butchering Windows.
Tons of laptops with top notch specs for 1/2 the price of a M1/2 out there, and they can have linux installed. The M series still has issues with applications running properly on them as well.
It’s funny that you brought up application compatibility when numerous creative tools I use don’t support Linux. I also did not buy my Macbook at full price.
I wouldn’t mind having a Linux laptop to tinker with some day, but it would not be a primary or secondary device for me.
I’m not saying linux is the end all be all, there is a reason the enterprise world runs on Windows still, but while I like my MacBooks from work, they’ve got a lot to be desired for the price. Non mac laptops have really caught up with design and hardware.
The half-price laptops have 1/4th the battery life of an m1 which is the other reason OP likes it
Tons of laptops with top notch specs for 1/2 the price of a M1/2 out there
The 13” M1 MacBook Air is $700 new from Best Buy. Better specced versions are available for $600 used (buy-it-now) on eBay, but the base specced version is available for $500 or less.
What $300 or less used / $350 new laptops are you recommending here?
Apple TV is the only set top box that doesn’t show you ads and sell your watch data up and down a river. The battery life on Apple silicon laptops are unmatched and it’s a better OS than windows by far and the big desktop environment packages on Linux don’t match it either (It also doesn’t feel right not just using terminal/bash on Linux for me either, GUIs are overrated)
Lastly I feel better about my data privacy using the full Apple ecosystem compared to using Google’s full ecosystem. (But will admit using an open source rom focused on privacy and disconnect from any cloud service would be the most effective, I do want some level of convenience )
I like it when I use Ableton Live.
I can load any of my projects and everything is running exactly how I left it. Any issues I’ve had have been down to 3rd party plugins.
I’m fortunate in that this is the only thing I use my MBP for, other than accessing music stuff on the internet using Firefox with uBlock, which is synced with my phone.
It’s not logged into Apple ID, and I bought it used. So there’s no money paid to Apple and as little data as I can give them.
It’s my hobby, but if I were to do it professionally I would do everything exactly the same. Except I would buy the machine new.
Garageband. That is all.
