If there is anything to discuss about Apple products: it´s the brutal and oppressive work system they established in china, their support of surveillance dictatorships around the world, their destructive forced obsolescence and the impudent refusal to contribute to societies by paying taxes like every citizen does. It is an evil, cynical gang of criminals that are actively destroying the future of our planet and our freedoms and you are talking about GUI quirks? STOP buying it!
Stop following that stupid idea of closed source operating systems! Thanks to the visionary veterans of the free software movement nowadays we have alternatives - we just need to use them!
Yes, of course fascist corporate market oppressors make it hard to be free and easy to obey.
Yes, of course there still might be some edge cases and quirks and things must get ironed out. But freedom future is what we get, something that is worth all the trouble!
Especially here on HN I feel that vicarious embarrassment when "Hackers" proudly brag about their OSX and IOS problems. "ICloud" - how can a thinking, self-respecting human even still use that surveillance tools?
We are on the edge of losing all of the freedoms our fathers fought for just because we are too lazy to solve the minimal last mile of problems on a very long marathon to better usability of open source software everywhere - this is historic debt we are taking on us just because of "easy"!
Get the F out of your comfort zone and support free software.
Yes, there will be lots of jobs, many independent developers and system consultants and small support shops with open systems, it will be a much better economy with free software - closed software actually produces bad systems because milking the consumer becomes a higher priority than building good software. The evidence is clearly visible nowadays. Windows, Adobe, Apple, etc. - all systems that are so bad and full of problems because the idea of closed source is wrong and leads to bad software.
Also the childish inability to recognize that free software is an inevitable requirement for a free society has already caused too many problems, we finally must take the next step and make open systems even better everywhere.
Be part of the solution and stop using software that puts users in a virtual prison, let us make free software mainstream everywhere!
Free your gadgets and your brain will follow! Stop buying anti-freedom!