Steve Jobs Foretold the Downfall of Apple(youtube.com) |
Steve Jobs Foretold the Downfall of Apple(youtube.com) |
I started with switching to Android, and I'm now typing this on an Asus running elementary OS after a regretful MacBook Pro buy.
They're not going anywhere, but their product are really starting to suck, and with those price tags that's unacceptable (at least to me).
I find that I'm far more productive with Linux, StumpWM, emacs and a modern userland than I am with macOS, Finder, either Cocoa emacs or another Mac editor and an ancient set of BSD tools. I find that I'm more productive running Termux on my Android phone & tablets than … running nothing at all on an iPhone (unless something has changed recently).
Moreover, with open source software I have freedom, and that's worth far more to me than my hourly rate.
[0] E.g., of the iOS i-issue, he writes (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/11/07/ios-11-i), 'What I’ve heard is that this is a machine learning problem — that, more or less, for some reason the machine learning algorithm for autocorrect was learning something it never should have learned,' which is about the most lenient take one can have on the problem. I'm actually a little surprised that he hasn't posted that the impossibility of using the iOS calculator is deliberate, to force one to slow down and reflect.
This is pretty much irrelevant because this core is too small to support Apple. Apple very much needs to sell to the masses, outside their “core”, to keep afloat.