Hell hath no fury like a scorned Appleboi
I don't buy Macs anymore
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Re: I don't buy Macs anymore
#32Awful rant of an article, but I will say… Apple had a really frustrating period for laptops for a while. It was so bad that, while I loved OSX, I bought a different laptop. - the early butterfly keyboards were fragile, difficult to type with, and stuff got stuck in them - USB-C only transition made me have to use adapters everywhere - the touch bar (and software escape key) was atrocious - the glass screens were too…
> the early butterfly keyboards were fragile
... and the last butterfly keyboards. I bought one after they added extra insulation under the keys (or whatever they pretended to do) and it broke in a couple months just like the early ones.
"As such, they are not intended to encounter circumstances that don’t track to the lifestyle of the average Apple employee."
This one is right. For the wrong reasons.
Re: I don't buy Macs anymore
#33I find similarly annoying issues with Mac software and hardware. Exporting all your keychain settings can't be done as a bulk export last time I tried; it kept prompting my password for every entry using the `security` cli tool. I had a fusion drive iMac at my workplace and it was a horrid experience, and similarly I've had butterfly keyboard Macbooks were pretty unusable (I gave up on work laptops and just use my 20…
> But I find the competitors in shambles.
That's the really sad part. Apple only has to be better than Windows :)
Re: I don't buy Macs anymore
#34Apple notes were stored in SQL format if I remember correctly. So you gotta find that hidden database file in the computer.
Re: I don't buy Macs anymore
#35This article is a pretty lame rant. I'm no engineer, but I know I need to back up my Mac, just like every other PC. I run Arq and back it up to cloud storage, and I also have a sync program set up to back up my most critical files to secondary locations. Yes, Notes is proprietary. But why is that a surprise? It basically says it on the tin. That's exactly why I have never used it. I used Notational Velocity, nvAlt, s…
Sorry, just to recap what you are saying:
- Apple ships with the OS a notes app that is proprietary and not open enough for you;
- You do prefer to save your notes in different formats than notes does because of portability;
- The OS app lacks basic functionality to export notes;
- You need to write code to actually export your damn notes.
How is this not a disappointing UX experience for a 3 trillion company that is celebrated for its UX escapes me.
Re: I don't buy Macs anymore
#36This article is a pretty lame rant. I'm no engineer, but I know I need to back up my Mac, just like every other PC. I run Arq and back it up to cloud storage, and I also have a sync program set up to back up my most critical files to secondary locations. Yes, Notes is proprietary. But why is that a surprise? It basically says it on the tin. That's exactly why I have never used it. I used Notational Velocity, nvAlt, s…
Sorry, just to recap what you are saying: - Apple ships with the OS a notes app that is proprietary and not open enough for you; - You do prefer to save your notes in different formats than notes does because of portability; - The OS app lacks basic functionality to export notes; - You need to write code to actually export your damn notes. How is this not a disappointing UX experience for a 3 trillion company that is…
I bought a computer with an OS. I don't need or want a note taking app from the OS vendor, or a document editing app, or a photo editing app. Their note taking app is just irrelevant to me - I want a computer and an OS from them. For a note taking app and many other programs, I'd rather use one of the various great (and sometimes open source) options.
I'm not expecting Apple to write a notes app that tops Obsidian, a photo management app that beats Lightroom, or a news reader that beats NetNewsWire, etc etc.
The point about writing code to export from Notes was to show that, if a person nonetheless chooses for whatever reason to use the free note taking app they ship with the OS, then they can still export things.