"it's beyond me why would anyone willingly use an Apple product"
With respect, then, you aren't making much of an effort to understand.
With respect, then, you aren't making much of an effort to understand.
I admit, I was sometimes jealous of mac hardware, for example the new M1, magsafe, and etc (though not the terrible keyboards). Though I was never jealous of an iPhone's hardware. I was never ever jealous of the software. I always found it buggy and user-hostile.
The line you quoted was specifically about the user-hostility. You are using a machine that you can't control and actively fights you. It's mind boggling to me that developers agree to use such a system. Is this such an unreasonable opinion?
Just to give an example, it is quite easy to build Android apps in a CI, while iOS is a pain (specially because there is no way to build an iOS app in anything other than a Mac). Also, most bugs specific to a platform happens in iOS (they happen in Android too, but my experience is maybe 10 bugs in iOS for 1 in Android).
I control my Mac just fine. I've built tools from source; I run whatever I want; I can automate tasks I find tedious using the same shell tools available on Linux, and I still have access to MS Office (and no, open/FOSS "alternatives" don't work sufficiently well for me) and other COTS tools I depend on.
The Mac is absolutely the right platform for me, and I don't find it limiting or broken or hostile AT ALL. And neither do millions of other folks.
I also work regularly with Windows, and have a higher-end Dell XPS on my desk for that purpose. Windows is so profoundly broken and un-discoverable and inconsistent (not to mention unstable over time) that I cannot fathom choosing to use it over anything else -- and it's the only OTHER platform where I could get access to some of the tools I rely on. Linux isn't there, and hacks to try to make things like Win software run there imply a level of tedious fiddling that I'm 100% retired from.
>Is this such an unreasonable opinion?
I guess it depends on whether you consider an unstudied, single-POV opinion reasonable.