Oh, no, I can't use the McDonald's app!

Can't remember the last time I spent money on McDonald's over priced crap.

Yep.

This question doesn't address what else these engineers do besides write code.

Who knows how many meetings they're involved in to constrain the crazy from senior management?

The 90's? Locked bootloaders would've meant people woukdve simply bought different machines without a locked bootloader.

See the IBM/Phoenix BIOS war - it's essentially the same thing. IBM didn't want to license their BIOS to everyone, so Phoenix reverse engineered it. If I remember right, IBM was trying to lock everyone to using their OS.

And a supposed adult at 21...

What went wrong is anon never grew up - he's still 13

Right?

To whom is this not obvious? Top talent has options.

The number of people who will leave windows over this stuff is trivial.

Apple has practically zero presence in enterprise (where one company can have 60,000 computers), and also practically zero in SMB.

Business software is written for windows. Even trying to use a Mac with the most basic office software is challenging - even if the exact same product exists in both.

People aren't flocking anywhere when their work machines are windows. Damn few people can be bothered with learning 2 ways to do things, especially when they're not interested in computing. I've been at this since before Mac existed, and while I can use OSX or iOS, I'm not wasting my limited learning time on something I rarely use, and can't really integrate with much of the rest I use.

Now let's look at some other arenas:

Legal - they all use a small set of document apps (which until recently was wordperfect), and some legal database apps. None of the database apps run on Mac as far as I've seen.

Engineering - there are practically no CAD apps for Mac. Some do exist, but again, even the ones that are on both Windows and Mac are problematic at best on Mac, typically unable to integrate with the back end.

Most people don't have the bandwidth to learn a new system just to avoid the shitty part of Windows (which only affects home users anyway). It takes less effort/time to figure out how to mitigate the Windows issues than to deal with a completely new system, that will also have issues integrating with other stuff they already have.

And get caught on everything.

I can't be bothered with the inconvenience of wires. Bluetooth quality is good enough for what I need it for, and the convenience of simply putting them on gives me sound is hard to beat.

I have a pair of noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones (not buds) from 2008 that still work. Battery life isn't what it was, but whatever - they work fine for how I use them (as one pair of several). I could replace the battery if I felt like it, just not worth the effort.

But I get that some people prefer the wired for their use-case.

Lol, you don't already operate this way in life?

Someone trying to guilt or pressure you has an agenda and isn't concerned with what's best for you.

"eyes on going public"

Well, there's the death knell. Not that it was awesome to begin with, just a stepping stone to get people away from WhatsApp.

Come on Signal, SimpleX, XMPP!

I struggle to understand why XMPP isn't the de facto messaging standard around the world, I was using it on my first Android phone in 2009, 15 years ago - and was able to seamlessly message people on computers even then. Granted it was hell on battery back then.

There's a check box in FF settings to block all third party cookies.

You should probably educate yourself before making inaccurate claims.

When they remove access to content I paid for... Fuck em.

If buyin' ain't owning, piracy ain't stealin'

Yep.

I've already run into a few. I mentally thank them for preventing me from wasting my time and money with them.