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Breaking up Apple would be glorious. Great hardware without an Orwellian OS on top.
Apple only holds on monopoly position on the smartphone market for people with lots of money. They aren't a majority in any other market segment.
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Linux is pretty awful at a lot of things …
As a VERY long-time Linux user, I agree. Multi-monitor setups, where you can unplug the monitor and have your windows gather back onto your laptop screen requires WAY too much configuration. Having your audio switch back to internal laptop speakers requires homebrewing a script. On my 2020 Dell XPS, I still haven't figured out how to enable the subwoofers - so I'm stuck with ThinkPad quality audio. I have 3 ThinkPads…
If I remember correctly dell never provided drivers/firwmare/docs upstream to drive the subwoofer. ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215233
My company is now removing all microsoft products, all of it. Laptops are moving to OSX. Office365->Gmail+G-suite. Zoom->Google meet. Fortunately we don't use Azure or Github, so that will make the transition easier.
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When I went to university 17 years ago, all of the computers (except the Macs) had dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04. I'll give you five guesses which OS I never booted into.
That's a bit of a trick question, because if you'd booted into Windows, it would have eventually broken the dual-boot.
Microsoft should be scared about the Macbook Neo. They're going to lose a good chunk of the market because of it.
Desktop and laptop sellers need to end their abusive business relationship with Microsoft, and start selling systems with a Linux distribution. They'll save costs while selling a better product. People who know they need Windows will always have the option to install it themselves.
Unfortunately Apple is learning to be as annoying too. I don't want to upgrade to Tahoe which is inscrutable to me. Maybe remind me next year. But they pop up every week reminding me to "upgrade" even though most the problems are unfixed. They have pushed iCloud in the settings application as if it is an adboard. Hopefully they stop but I recognize these steps from Windows slippery slope.
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> You're probably an iCloud services user. I don't even know what iCloud is, and I have seen zero ads. I don't understand such comments.
Oh please. Unless you’ve never opened system settings and got the device with a user account pre-configured for you, you have been exposed to iCloud several times. Does it make one especially edgy to pretend to use an Apple device while never having heard the name of their single cloud offering? Whatever floats your boat, mate.
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None of those. All we need is enforcing laws that are already on the books. Antitrust laws. Break up big tech.
Breaking up Apple would be glorious. Great hardware without an Orwellian OS on top.
Today, outside of a few niche areas such as motorsport and commercial uses such as buses and coaches, nobody buys a vehicle this way. If you walked into your local Ford or Toyota and asked for a rolling chassis they would look at you as if you were insane, and rightly so. Integrating the development of the chassis and body into a single unit (both philosophically and literally [0]) has given us cars which are lighter, faster, more efficient, more featureful and safer by every measure.
We had our coachbuilding period in personal computing and it's all but over[1]. Nobody asks for the hardware and operating system to be sold separately for their washing machine, their TV, their microwave oven or Tesla EV. And yet for some reason some still cling to the idea that tablets and smartphones are personal computers rather than recognising them for the appliances they are.
As Steve Jobs allegedly said, design is not how something looks, design is how something works. How a feature works on a highly evolved device like an iPhone is a function of tightly coupled and carefully designed hardware and software.
Having this design process take place in different teams inside different companies, selling in different commercial models would not lead to a better outcome, it would be worse, much worse. The staggering commercial success of both iPhone and iPad is all the proof you need.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_frame#Unibody
[1] Servers/Linux are the commercial vehicles in this analogy