Dear Apple, I’m leaving you

Headline is pretty much my stance. This recent bit of flat-out patent trolling (the whole slide to unlock thing, more recently their downright childish conduct wrt. a court order) evaporated what was once a great deal of respect for a visionary company.

Apple is now on my do not buy list. I've dumped my iOS devices because there's no way to extend their functionality without sending cash Apple's way. I'll continue to use the desktop OSes until such time as that becomes true there (hoping it doesn't, but you'd have to be blind not to see the direction the industry is taking), and then I'll migrate to some form of Linux distro, or even Windows.

This really hurts. I really used to like Apple, I used to really like their products, damn it, I really used to like the way the kool-aid tasted. But I can't support them in good faith any longer.

There's still no better consumer video editing program than iMovie and I still can't use CS6 on Linux without a bunch of awful, messy hacks. These are the only things keeping me on OS X.

Are you a founder looking for a good idea (perhaps for your YCombinator application?) Let me be clear — I will pay for these things. Free me and everyone else from the growing tyranny of the Apple ecosystem and you'll be stacking paper to the ceiling.

Dear WordPress folder, I can see you.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/btxyhpeivqyvemr/Screen%20Shot%2020...

(I caught the article before the site stopped working … and it just sort of feels like a rant I've read a million times. I can understand why one might feel that way, but it's kind of been said before.)

I have recently made the same decision after more than a decade using Apple, going to move to Linux and sell my iOS devices to get Nexus ones instead. It has not been an easy decision but I now feel I have no choice, and I will save a ton of money. Every OS X update since Snow Leopard has been a step backwards for me, iOS is starting to feel like Windows XP, no innovation, code quality seems to be awful, and its very ugly in parts (just look at Game Center which is perhaps the most revolting app on iOS). I also really dislike the feature hold back strategy they have for older devices which are obviously capable. I have an iPhone 4 and had to get the slap in the face which was no Sir in iOS 6. I now have an iPad 3 and now the new comes out just months after I bought it. Fine, I don't particularly mind that, except I just know they will hold back new snazzy features in iOS 7 saying some shit about the iPad 3 being too old, I've been burnt before. Yeah I know these are 'first world problems' but why should I put with it? I'm done with Apple.

Wow. This guy is such a dumb, annoying ranter. He picks out a couple truly small things that he doesn't like for whatever reason and whines about how it's not perfect. I can't believe anyone would want to listen to him. I'm not a huge apple fan myself, but this even pissed me off. Like he complained that the new MacBooks added an SD card. Seriously?? What the hell is wrong with ADDING a feature on their laptops? And it sounds to me like he's just being pissy about apple changing their dock connector to lighting because he had accessories for the old one. It's been 9 years since they came out with that, are they never allowed to upgrade? I'm an android and windows user and even I think everything about this article is completely unreasonable.

I believe the growing consensus is that the playing field has been levelled between iOS and Android. Both are fair options... and one not heavily dictated by price (as with the osx vs windows debates).

This of course won't be the usual conclusion of the tech commenters as iOS vs Android has turned into political camps http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer

That being said, the app marketplaces are still heavily in favor of iOS.

Article elsewhere on the internet:

http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-apple-im-leaving-you-201...

Dear BusinessInsider, I'm tired of your whining.

> I’ll hang onto my iPad for the time being. I’ll certainly keep the Macbook Air – I’m not quite ready to return to Windows yet.

The paradox of monocultures; where you write bold, flowery proclamations that only 2/3rds of your computer devices will be made by Apple.

Planned obselence is unavoidable. Android device manufacturers are notorious, especially that awful Verizon Droid branding.

site owner did it on purpose?

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Nice dead link.

Nah, nothing changed about Apple. You just got bored and want to play with different thing.

Why return to Windows? You could use Linux.