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As a hobby project: cool. But as a solution to a problem, how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs? Apple consistently makes products that work worse than their competitors', for quadruple the price, but, hey, I guess they "look nice".

...which is subjective, personally I think Apple products look absolutely atrocious, with half of screen real estate of their software attributed to padding, and all their product's surfaces the blandest possible solid colors imaginable. So when a product not only functions worse, is several times the price, but also looks bad, what's left?

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> with half of screen real estate of their software attributed to padding

Padding is incredibly important for readable text content. For example, WCAG recommends that blocks of text be no more than 80 Latin glyphs wide.

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...

> Apple consistently makes products that work worse than their competitors’, for quadruple the price

This is also subjective. Personally, I find Apple products to work far better than the competition. I have to use Windows every day at work and I find the experience miserable, and I’ve had 3 different Android phones and always find myself returning to the iPhone.

As for the price, Apple products do cost a bit more, but quadruple is quite the exaggeration. Comparable ultrabooks to the MacBook Pro (Dell XPS line, ThinkPad X1) aren’t massively far off, and they’re made of plastic, not aluminum, which makes a difference in durability in my experience. As for mobile, the iPhone is priced in line with other high-end smartphones like the Galaxy and Pixel lines.

> how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs?

You made a very good point.

This whole post reminds me the whole iPhone Jailbreak thing: people devoting an huge amount of time and effort to "fix" something Apple doesn't want to be fixed.

And they're even proud of it! I find it to be utterly pathetic.

Over and over again Apple forces their manipulative decisions over their costumers and the majority just follows along.

And the funniest thing is the standard reaction on HN, a place for Apple fanboys. When Microsoft does the same this place erupts with anger, e.g: all the complaints about adds and telemetry on Windows. If Apple does it they invent excuses and over-complicated workarounds for it.

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