Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[asr]

I've mentioned it prior in the mac thread but windows or linux has no real answer to the preview application on mac. The only thing close is the latest iteration of zotero. Specifically for pdfs and reading. That said I have not found a good FLAC player on mac that isn't foobar (not a fan) and having to convert to apple's format for lossless is gay. A music app like old itunes + FLAC I would actually pay money for.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

I also got into the "Apple ecosystem" by switching to a macbook as well and one of the things that immediately becomes apparent once you start buying other stuff in the ecosystem is how neatly everything ties together. I can answer calls/SMS on my macbook and even mirror my phone screen to it. Airdrop is insanely convenient for moving files between them. And my airpods switch seamlessly between my phone and my laptop without needing to mess with bluetooth shit - it just works. Obviously there's ways to get some semblance of this over in Android-land but it's always a pain in the ass to setup and likes to randomly break.

I’ve been (with the exception of my home server) 100% Apple since the M1 line launched and I have to say, the whole “It just works” thing has been a real eye opener.
It used to be that I was happy to spend hours unfucking whatever problems arose with various flavours of Linux and whatever the current version of Windows was. Now, I have neither the time nor the patience for it. I just want the device to do what I tell it and not be a nuisance and Apples ecosystem does it. I’m reminded of something everybody’s favourite tech autist, Wendell from Level 1 Techs said about Windows and its relationship to the user. He called it “adversarial” and he really couldn’t be more right.

 

[barrow greeter]

Once again the top feature listed for the new iPhone OS update is new "Pride something or other" wallpaper, I'm like whatever, go, just install it to make the red bubble go away. It's all so tiresome.

 

[Doggo]

I’ve been (with the exception of my home server) 100% Apple since the M1 line launched and I have to say, the whole “It just works” thing has been a real eye opener.
It used to be that I was happy to spend hours unfucking whatever problems arose with various flavours of Linux and whatever the current version of Windows was. Now, I have neither the time nor the patience for it. I just want the device to do what I tell it and not be a nuisance and Apples ecosystem does it. I’m reminded of something everybody’s favourite tech autist, Wendell from Level 1 Techs said about Windows and its relationship to the user. He called it “adversarial” and he really couldn’t be more right.

There’s a whole world out there, so why spend it confined behind Windows and Gates?

Also, I’m looking forward to WWDC. They say it every year, but the rumour mill has it that this year’s software updates are going to be huge. I’m counting down the days.

 

[LegoTugboat]

Apple's purchased RAC7, the 2 man development studio that made Sneaky Sasquatch (launched with Apple Arcade in 2019, remained one of the most popular titles since)

They'll become an internal studio within Apple, continuing to support and develop Sneaky Sasquatch.

Apple's acknowledged the purchase is unique, so probably shouldn't expect any more game studios being bought by the fruit.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

As someone who loves glassy UIs, the new iOS looks dope

 

[Jerk Sausage]

Yea I went into the "Liquid Glass" promo expecting to hate it, but it looks nice. UI/UX in general spent the last 10-15 years moving away from 3D UIs with depth for no good reason at all, other than it's easier for non-designer retards to slap together elements. Love me some drop shadows and highlighting on all interactable windows/buttons.

 

[analrapist]

I have not found a good FLAC player on mac that isn't foobar

https://github.com/losnoco/Cog - if you can stand using software written by an obese gay furry, this might be an option, dev used to develop a bunch of foobar plugins, and this program may have been inspiration for the Mac port of foobar

 

[FMW13]

As someone who loves glassy UIs, the new iOS looks dope

it does look less eye rappey. Hopefully it's not a bitch to use long term. Love my MacBook/iPad/iPhone and both AirPods. Having everything in sync really does make a difference in making your life easier to live.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

it does look less eye rappey. Hopefully it's not a bitch to use long term. Love my MacBook/iPad/iPhone and both AirPods. Having everything in sync really does make a difference in making your life easier to live.

I traded the openness of Android for the ease of apple. And i have no regrets.

There are things that bug me about Apple. But what i love from my iphone/watch/airpods really makes me not find them as annoying.

 

[FMW13]

I traded the openness of Android for the ease of apple. And i have no regrets.

There are things that bug me about Apple. But what i love from my iphone/watch/airpods really makes me not find them as annoying.

Dude same here but I’ll take apples interface any day over windows. Windows used to be easy to navigate but after windows 11 I complete given up on it and went back to Mac OS. I really don’t miss playing video games at all since all my devices use the same charging port which is super convenient.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

Yea I went into the "Liquid Glass" promo expecting to hate it, but it looks nice. UI/UX in general spent the last 10-15 years moving away from 3D UIs with depth for no good reason at all, other than it's easier for non-designer retards to slap together elements. Love me some drop shadows and highlighting on all interactable windows/buttons.

Thank GOD we're (very) slowly moving away from the hideous ultra flat UI design trend that started in the mid 2010s, I'm so fucking sick of it. I want something visually appealing with SOVL, not flat eye cancer.

Spoiler: RETVRN

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

As someone who loves glassy UIs, the new iOS looks dope

The amount of people bitching and moaning about this update upsets me. Hopefully this means flat design will start dying out within a couple of years.

RETVRN

Scott Forstall won, Jony Ive lost

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

The amount of people bitching and moaning about this update upsets me. Hopefully this means flat design will start dying out within a couple of years.

Scott Forstall won, Jony Ive lost

Same. Apple fanbois are just being babies about the change. Flat designs have overstayed their welcome. I love the glass look of Windows Vista and 7. Even liked the KDE 4 glass themes during that time

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

...return to Mac?
Nothing can be worse than Windows...

 

[Commodore 128]

Dude same here but I’ll take apples interface any day over windows. Windows used to be easy to navigate but after windows 11 I complete given up on it and went back to Mac OS. I really don’t miss playing video games at all since all my devices use the same charging port which is super convenient.

Check out CrossOver. I'm not a huge gamer either but the few games I do want to play every now and then are playable with it. Well worth the money IMO.

 

[Rob Wolchek]

Check out CrossOver. I'm not a huge gamer either but the few games I do want to play every now and then are playable with it. Well worth the money IMO.

I find Crossover to be pretty hit and miss with some games, definitely a given with how much shit is going on behind the scenes to make this all possible. Another option is VMWare which is free for personal use on Mac, I have had better luck with getting games to run in there but there's more overhead than Crossover since it's Windows 11 ARM virtualization (and you will want to unfuck Win11 as well to maxmize performance).

 

[asr]

https://github.com/losnoco/Cog - if you can stand using software written by an obese gay furry, this might be an option, dev used to develop a bunch of foobar plugins, and this program may have been inspiration for the Mac port of foobar

I've been playing around with it for a few weeks now, the dev is pretty quick on putting out updates. It is nice to just be able to drop in my flac or .wav files from finder directly into the player. The one thing that really irks me is that I would like to be able to have playlists that I can save. I don't want to have to mash up my file/sorting structure to just make a playlist or pick out individual songs from finder. The application itself other than that is pretty good.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I decided to take the plunge and install iOS 26 on my iPhone 14 Pro and iPadOS 26 on my iPad Pro. Considering putting MacOS 26 on my MBP, but it is my work machine, so maybe not til the Public Beta

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I've mentioned it prior in the mac thread but windows or linux has no real answer to the preview application on mac. The only thing close is the latest iteration of zotero. Specifically for pdfs and reading. That said I have not found a good FLAC player on mac that isn't foobar (not a fan) and having to convert to apple's format for lossless is gay. A music app like old itunes + FLAC I would actually pay money for.

Preview exists because Apple was one of the founding organizations involved in the PostScript protocol's development, and the desktop environment on Mac is actually PostScript-driven.

Microsoft refused to take part in developing PostScript and even tried to clone PDF and tried to force their shit format on the world in Windows XP. The refused to include compatibility because they didn't want to pay for licensing, same as how you had to buy DVD player software on Windows for years.