I never understood the reason an advanced user would buy an Apple product.
Is it compiling iOS apps for other people?
Given the high price and lack of qualities, I don't imagine many advanced users would buy anything from Apple.
Is it compiling iOS apps for other people?
Given the high price and lack of qualities, I don't imagine many advanced users would buy anything from Apple.
The two most glaring errors are, first, that "advanced users" wouldn't care about ease-of-use. And, second, that "advanced users" would care about price as much as you do.
Apple is great hardware, an OS that works and that doesn't constantly bother you with notification (the most glaring problem with Windows, when I last used it a decade ago), and a native Unix underneath.
You don't need the new hotness to get good and useful work done.
Just because someone is talented in CS, doesn't mean they can defend themselves from Marketing.
I imagine advanced users want full control over settings and programs. I recently needed to turn off signatures to get a compiler to work.
There doesn't seem to be a rational reason outside iOS compiling.
Nice deflection. Who says you can't have both?
I regularly switch between MacOS, Windows, and desktop Linux both for work and for home; I love fiddling around with settings and configurations to get things to work, but only sometimes and only when it’s on my terms. The rest of the time I just want it to work, out of the box or off the install disk.
I’m always going to love tinkering with Arch from time to time, but then I get my work done on Fedora or similar.
But I will still never accept Apple's approach of total control and deciding for its user. Each of us have different needs and expectations from our computer. And there is no way, even with all the spying that Apple does, that it can provide a "perfect environment" for each of it users. It just isn't true and not possible. So restricting customisation, in the name of security but in reality to limit and control the user from making any changes without "contributing" to Apple's profit, is just bad for us consumers.