People buy iPhones for their software, which is all made here. Otherwise all phones are black rectangles. The hardware isn’t that important.
To be clear, as an f’ing Linux user, the things that make Apple software good, which is consistency, lots of hand holding, and making it really hard to break things badly, are irrelevant to me.
But it’s highly relevant to the vast majority of iPhone users in the world.
It is still running on Apple platform. I'm buying an iPhone, because I know that I'll get consistent Apple experience that is same across all of my devices, unlike zoo of Android + Windows/Linux.
a buggy shitty mess? count me in!
Things aren't even consistent across mac os updates. I think it's much preferable to keep a phone a phone, and the computer a computer.
I only want a macbook because of the hardware. I'd give anything for them to fix the software. but it is what it is.
> Nobody cares about their operating system except for that one middle aged developer who loves that his apps look native on his macbook.
Nobody* cares.
* - 34% desktop share and 15% worldwide.
How does that follow? I'm saying people buy Apple products for their premium hardware, which rich consumers are more likely to do across all categories. If software mattered, Apple would be losing customers across the board because people spend more and more time in non-Apple software. It's the exact opposite of my claim.
>* - 34% desktop share and 15% worldwide.
I don't think you even understood what I said to be frank, I didn't argue Apple's marketshare, we are talking about where the value in their poduct is, I didn't argue that people dislike their products.