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

Post by Robotbeat » Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

lolinder wrote: post #261

p0w3n3d wrote: post #225

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so apparently I've witnessed a new device category being born. Not a mobile, not a laptop. Which has neither the rights and obligations of real computer nor of the mobile phone. It is something new (A TABLET) and will not let me handle my photos on it as I could handle them on my phone, it wouldn't let me browse pages as if this was laptop (even though I put it in the orientation the same as my laptop had) etc. etc.…

Don't most browsers have a "Desktop site" option you can turn on to tell websites you want the desktop version? It seems weird to blame your device for websites' bad decisions, especially when your device goes out of its way to allow you to force websites to correct their mistake.

Post by Robotbeat » Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 12:52 PM UTC

0_____0 wrote: post #216

DidYaWipe wrote: post #202

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Pretty much nailed it. Touchscreen devices are not for creating; they're for taking what you're given. They require big fat buttons for big fat fingers, which you poke like a trained pigeon to get your food pellet.

Largely true, although I'm still blown away when I read about someone who has written whole pieces of software from their phone, on their bus ride to work or something.

Post by WorldPeas » Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 12:59 PM UTC

matteotom wrote: post #166

WorldPeas wrote: post #139

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As a person who just entered the latter ecosystem as a matter of peer compatibility, after 10 years of Linux, it's miserable and I wish I could go back to what you have. Even with how blighted X86 feels, it feels even worse to have a computer that couldn't do what you wanted to and has the audacity to complain at you that it knows better and you shouldn't be able to alter certain parts of it

I switched my personal laptop to a M1 Macbook Pro (from a Thinkpad running Linux, also after almost 10 years) in 2020, mostly because I had switched to an iPhone a few months prior and was using a Macbook for work. It was certainly convenient most of the time - most features I wanted worked out of the box, and most dev tools could be managed by homebrew (at least well enough). But annoyances slowly stacked up over ti…

Post by rafram » Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 1:03 PM UTC

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.

Post by gigatexal » Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

goosedragons wrote: post #224

gigatexal wrote: post #152

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> The only reason that "iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work" is because Apple chooses to limit them. That’s their choice to make. As consumers it’s on us to make the right choices. What the author wants is a laptop not an iPad if they want a general purpose computing device The article is just a way to poke the giant that is Apple just like we used to when we wrote Micro$oft

What the author wants is a 2-in-1. The iPad is that, it's just hobbled to be a really bad laptop. All the hardware pieces are there, the power, the keyboard/trackpad accessory, the touch screen, the pen. If you go look at the marketing for the iPad line it really does seem like maybe you can do anything with them. It's only once you get serious that it all falls apart due to the software. The iPad Pro was designed to…