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Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by lenkite »

TrisMcC wrote: post #71
lenkite wrote: post #62

Author has not tried WSL - its pretty amazing on windows and is the designated cage breaker for Windows. I run nearly everything inside WSL and all apps runs faster! Thanks to Windows security not scanning files inside WSL, the laptop fan doesn't start spinning up when doing I/O intensive work. Can actually rest the laptop on my lap without wincing.

WSL is fine for some purposes. It just never got better. I just wiped my 4-year install on my work thinkpad for direct Linux after wrestling with WSL2 which broke in numerous ways in every update: - WSLg is a pile of crap, and it feels like no development was done on it after it was initially released. It is so easy to crash the display server. It still does not resume from sleep reliably. Anything that quickly opens…

Huh, I haven't experienced those problems on my thinkpad - sleep/resume seems to work without issues. But admittedly I am just doing simple developer work, nothing fancy.

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by stickmunch »

threeseed wrote: post #97
idle_zealot wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The infuriating thing is that a huge number of those limitations exist as a few bytes that Apple does not let you flip, somewhere in the OS's code or configuration. It would be unreasonable to buy, say, a flip phone in 2007 and complain that it can't replace a graphics workstation. It didn't have the hardware for that workload. Today, it's the artificial nature of the limitations that make the device akin to a cage.

Yes because flipping those bits would make the iPad a Mac. And the whole point of an iPad is that you have a simple and consistent experience.

I don't recall which WWDC it was.. They had a slide with the largest text they ever used.

The question was "will ipadOS and macOS merge?

"NO"

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by stickmunch »

stickmunch wrote: post #102
threeseed wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes because flipping those bits would make the iPad a Mac. And the whole point of an iPad is that you have a simple and consistent experience.

I don't recall which WWDC it was.. They had a slide with the largest text they ever used. The question was "will ipadOS and macOS merge? "NO"

Found it.

it was iOS and macOS but still...

https://youtu.be/DOYikXbC6Fs

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by mullingitover »

"My decade-old and very well-travelled Toyota Land Cruiser finally died, and I hoped my new-ish ebike could replace it."

How that article sounds. I don't care how fancy they make them, iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work.

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by alabastervlog »

mullingitover wrote: post #104

"My decade-old and very well-travelled Toyota Land Cruiser finally died, and I hoped my new-ish ebike could replace it." How that article sounds. I don't care how fancy they make them, iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work.

I see them more than laptops among actual people out in the world doing real work. Phones, too.

[edit] non-office-workers, I mean.

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by jvan »

threeseed wrote: post #97
idle_zealot wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The infuriating thing is that a huge number of those limitations exist as a few bytes that Apple does not let you flip, somewhere in the OS's code or configuration. It would be unreasonable to buy, say, a flip phone in 2007 and complain that it can't replace a graphics workstation. It didn't have the hardware for that workload. Today, it's the artificial nature of the limitations that make the device akin to a cage.

Yes because flipping those bits would make the iPad a Mac. And the whole point of an iPad is that you have a simple and consistent experience.

>a simple and consistent experience

Has that not been Apple's entire marketing thrust since 1984?

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by jjtheblunt »

mullingitover wrote: post #104

"My decade-old and very well-travelled Toyota Land Cruiser finally died, and I hoped my new-ish ebike could replace it." How that article sounds. I don't care how fancy they make them, iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work.

If you're an artist who draws, I think they're serious computing devices.

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by Dylan16807 »

stickmunch wrote: post #103
stickmunch wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't recall which WWDC it was.. They had a slide with the largest text they ever used. The question was "will ipadOS and macOS merge? "NO"

Found it. it was iOS and macOS but still... https://youtu.be/DOYikXbC6Fs

For a phone, you really do want a different interface. (unless you're tethering it) That's much more justifiable.

Re: Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

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Post by Dylan16807 »

pjmlp wrote: post #33
Apocryphon wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? https://www.youtube.com/@BringusStudios

Personally I rather buy hardware fit for purpose.

The hardware is fit for purpose. That's what makes the situation frustrating. It's a software lock.
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