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For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this is the default behavior for a supposedly premium operating system.

Because Apple's view seems to be that if you aren't using all of Apple's products, you're not their target audience.

It seems the fans are willing to put up with absolutely unlimited grief and inconvenience to drink the koolaid they're given. Some Apple PM made a edict 11 years ago that Music shalt be thine only audio experience on the platform. Lock it down, boys!

The rest of us ask for a customizable experience.

This “Apple customers are brainwashed cultists incapable of examining reality” schtick was tired a decade ago. No option’s perfect. But Apple’s current tradeoffs vs other options’ trade offs continue to feel worthwhile to many.

Maybe it's tired to you. The reason why it's a decade-old shtick is because Apple spent a decade adopting Microsoft-tier design patterns. They push advertisements in the OS and first-party apps, and then refuse to improve the experience with iterative updates. It is an ongoing issue.

> No option’s perfect.

Bullshit. I've used Linux and Windows PCs before, I have not heard a single user want Apple Music to open when they put on their headphones. There is a perfect solution, but you lack the willpower to call Apple out for dark patterns. This should only be an opt-in feature, full-stop.

1. Pressing play button plays music

"Absolutely unlimited grief and inconvenience!"

Pressing the stem on your AirPods, or pressing the play button, or pressing function enter on a Mac opens an undeletable application.

If you dont have music, this just wastes a bit of time. If you have music, apparently it wastes a lot of time.

Cherry or grape?

I would like to choose which music app opens when I hit play. I my case it is not the locked one.

If you get a Mac it means you're paying a premium for the carefully curated Apple Experience and if you don't like it you just need to Think Different and do only what Apple allows you to do and only in the way that Apple tells you to do it. Once you surrender to Apple there is no more grief and inconvenience, only joy because then It Just Works.

The OS isn't supposed to be premium since it's free, does that help figure it out?

You can't buy the OS directly, but it certainly isn't free.

How do you figure a price of 0 is a high price?

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