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Lol I'm a former diehard Apple hater that's been using an iPhone for 4 years and loves Apple Silicon Macs.

But I still do think they've done a lot of idiotic things lately. iOS 26 works fine on my phone (some people are reporting performance issues), but the UI is hit and miss.

Apple Vision Pro seemed doomed from the get go, but they really made it worse by not launching a cheaper headset with Air branding half a year or a year in to actually drive market share enough to make it worthwhile for developers. Could've given it an A series CPU since we now know it works in a laptop so why not in XR or whatever they're calling this.

Help them switch to GrapheneOS!

Yeah.

The hardware is fantastic.

The software is like one of those brides where they bind the feet so they can never become independent. And then services revenue is a goitre on this creatures neck constantly throwing it off balance as it tries to shamble forward.

I very much want ~2010 apple, where the hardware was maybe a bit meh, but the software was top tier.

I’m not optimistic on this one, since one of the features of huge corporations is that the institutional shareholders that own them appoint the person they think will deliver the best YoY growth and Earnings Per Share. For a company that’s mostly saturated its market, this means enshittification and thumbscrew-tightening on its existing customers.

He may not have the product vision or salesmanship of Jobs, but he’s a logistics genius and was a MAJOR part of saving Apple when he came on. I’m reading the book “Apple in China”, and he was very responsible for Apple’s incredible supply chain and the fact that Apple, itself, holds relatively little inventory with the exception of its stores.

The company has grown exponentially under Cook. The problem is that there hasn’t really been an awe inspiring new product developed fully under him.

Would have been fun if the new guy was called Pine.

I like it ):

It is way prettier than the standard flat icon theme.

Aren't they hardware focused? I don't use any of their products but I keep hearing praise about their M chips and their general build quality. Their phones seem pretty solid too; although, I guess you might not be getting the best bang for your buck when comparing features side-by-side.

They might be seeing / thinking that there is less money in hardware now versus specialty, closed-ecosystem software. I think that's why we haven't seen Apple Silicon advertised that heavily lately.

It reminds me a little bit of the end of the PowerPC days. Everything had a G4 or G5 in it, but the software was the star for a loooonng time, and it stayed that way well into the Intel days. They'll never shift away from Apple Silicon because it gives them enhanced verticals, but it may stay mostly under the hood.

I think that killing off the Mac Pro supports this idea. There also wasn't another giant machine for geeks for a while after they killed off the massive G5 tower.

Good for you

Which isn't even called the iWatch