Windows does what Microsoft wants. Period. Public discussion is just noise. Even more so, Apple.
If you want a computing environment that is responsive to your needs, you need to step away from products of those autocratic organizations.
If you want a computing environment that is responsive to your needs, you need to step away from products of those autocratic organizations.
Mainly what I want is to not think about my tools at all, and just pick them up or put them down whenever the need arises, without worrying about whether I'm making a secret catastrophic error or that my tools are pretending to be my tools, while actually their master is somebody else.
I gladly sacrifice control to Apple the same way I sacrifice control to my doctor or to my sanitation engineer, or, if I had a car, to my car manufacturer.
I'm not a teenager exploring the universe of options anymore. Now I just want to get from point A to point B.
If I agree with you that Apple sucks, then you were right that Apple sucks.
If I say most of Apple's design and philosophy decisions are the best option for someone like me, then you were right Apple sucks because I'm trying to convince myself otherwise.
The only version of my experience you'd believe is the one you believed already: that Apple sucks.
Clearly almost all Apple fans have to be in the former group. It is just possible you are in the latter, instead.
It is the same, BTW, for political parties.