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[–] eurodyne@piefed.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Look, Apple‘s build quality just can’t be beat. They make a solid goddamn product. I have been buying Apple products for over 25 years, and I have never had a single Apple product fail on me. Not once.

Now you can complain all you want about the software, but that’s mostly a matter of personal opinion, and some matter of weirdness. But the software is also pretty solid, saved for some odd choices here and there.

It’s all BSD/UNIX after all (or, a rather odd derivative akin to the likes of Solaris, but that’s another conversation)

However, recently, the corporate philosophy and my own philosophy has become divergent, and Linux has become a lot more attractive. And, finally, far more capable than it has been in the past. finally, a worthy replacement.

That’s what macOS always was: what Linux wasn’t yet. But it is now. and Apple has run the fuck out of time.

For example, until the last five or eight years or so, Apple used to be a major contributor to some of the most important open source projects on earth,… Until the last five or eight years or so… Not so much anymore. There are a lot more examples, but I don’t think you wanna hear it.

For all of the awesomeness that Apple once held, it really was Tim Cook that took a shit on all of it

Apple really did used to be great 😢

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[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Apple‘s build quality just can’t be beat.

Unrepairable-by-design machines which (for the few parts that can be replaced) explicitly require you to buy Apple branded parts at a premium... we must have different definitions of build quality, because using good materials on a poorly designed product still makes a poor product.

And yes, it's true that everyone just solders RAM to the board and calls it a day now; Apple started that trend too. I agree they look nice. But they are not designed with the best interests of the consumer. They're designed to maximize profits for Apple, despite the consumer also paying more for it.

But, to each their own. I also used to really enjoy their machines, but it was a long time ago (before they switched from PPC to Intel). Back in those days, Apple's pricing was not nearly as batshit crazy as it is now. Since then, you consistently get less machine for more money. Doesn't matter which device.

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[–] eurodyne@piefed.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

Unrepairable-by-design

A strawman argument upon which I will not engage

If I’m rich enough to buy an Apple product, I will never need to repair it, because I’ll just buy a new one in a year or two. QED. That is the entire product model, thus the point.

Apple products are extremely well built. There is no debate on that subject. They are extremely unrepairable. There is no debate on that subject. And this is not a conversation for the debate between those two subjects.

I will say this: I wish for repairable (or at least more repairable) products from Apple, but this is a very different conversation than “well-built products”

Edit: if I had said “well designed products”, then we might have a debate on the subject, but I didn’t.

I get where you’re coming from, and I get where you’re going, but the intersection you’re looking for just isn’t there

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[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 1 point 1 month ago

A strawman argument upon which I will not engage

And then engages...

If I’m rich enough to buy an Apple product, I will never need to repair it, because I’ll just buy a new one in a year or two.

Nuf' said. I don't want to be in the group that supports the thing aimed at the rich.