Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

Post by madeofpalk » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:17 PM UTC

DannyBee wrote: post #5

owenwil wrote: post #4

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>So, like creating a full blown new programming language (Swift)? Byproduct of Apple's work on mobile. > Or a full new filesystem (AFS)? Byproduct of Apple's work on mobile. > Siri on the desktop? Byproduct of mobile again! (By the way, ask Siri on Mac to set an alarm or interact with homekit!) But, I take your point. I tried to mostly detail Apple's lack of attention for developers, but perhaps missed the emphasis o…

"Byproduct of mobile." If you need evidence: Swift appeared in IOS first and still is not great on the desktop at all. APFS (not AFS) is the default in IOS, and still in feature preview and pretty unusable in 10.12. It's "expected" it will be released for desktop in 2017 Siri on the desktop is mostly useless, as said here.

Post by simion314 » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:20 PM UTC

Asooka wrote: post #86

hossbeast wrote: post #19

Probably switching from macOs to Arch Linux soon myself

I use Arch myself, but at this point I'm absolutely convinced I do so only because I'm a masochist. I work as a C++ dev on a large multiplatform project and from what I've observed there is almost nothing that Linux does better than Windows for a person looking to do work on his computer. The only two things I would miss if I switched to Windows right now are rr (Mozilla's record and replay debugger) and ccache. Linu…

Post by akio » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:21 PM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #291

atl4s wrote: post #91

More FOTM moaning about the state of Apple. I can't believe people keep reading these "I left Apple and here's why you should care" articles by front end devs with no real idea of what goes into OS dev and where macOS has come from since the days of OS8. Give me a break, surely if you want to use Windows you don't need to write 2000 words in the form of some needlessly pronoun heavy (because your opinion is really im…

> macOS has never been more stable or developer friendly * I have to turn off gatekeeper to run unsigned apps. * I can't write into /bin or /usr on my own machine without flipping some magic option * I can't run gdb without some complicated signing dance I have to do every time I update it. * I can't run dtrace without rebooting and switching some secret flag off. I have to tell other people to turn they same thing o…

Post by diego_moita » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

xorblurb wrote: post #265

nik736 wrote: post #148

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Here in Germany I see Mac products every day. Even in the train there are more MacBooks than Windows Laptops.

For "PC" (laptop and desktop), the market share of Apple worldwide is somewhere between 6% and 10%. Linux is ~ 1 to 2%. The rest is mainly Windows. Interestingly I could not found Germany on http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/ but here is Switzerland which have one of the highest OS X penetration of the world (the highest?) http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/switzerlan... I don't have the figure…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 9:28 PM UTC

plushpuffin wrote: post #283

madez wrote: post #156

> The new MacBook Pros (...) _where_ interesting (...).

Don't focus on the typo. Focus on the sentence, which contradicts itself halfway through. Apparently, the new Macbooks are interesting, except that they're not at all interesting. > The new MacBook Pros, released in late 2016, where interesting, but something of a half-hearted shrug in the direction of users: they’re okay machines, but they sure aren’t interesting at all.