GeorgeOldfield

what are you people talking about? Cook is the best thing that happened to apple. Look at their sales. They are killing the laptop market - likely a complete dominance in the next years. same with the iphone - first year to be the biggest phone seller in a long time.

the switch to ARM and their M silicon was one of the best moves in computing in years.

adequate username

it's a random dude too

you're using a false dichotomy to hold the conversation hostage. it's possible to want to stop terrorism without handing a blank check to an authoritarian state.

double tap the screen

this is a great showcase of how good Mac OS is compared to something like Windows when we bicker about tiny things like the address field in the apple pay app.

Meanwhile on Windows we could talk about unreliable updates causing major bugs (explorer crashes, audio failures, slow performance, taskbar issues), poor quality assurance leading to regressions, bloatware. not to mention the hardware is in a different league.

> ridicule you in public

love this. more projects should use this kind of language. cut the bullshit

aren't they majority funded by Google, MS, Amazon, NVIDIA, Sequoia, etc?

It's not like you can take $30B from these companies at a $200B valuation (the valuation is based on something) and then not be capitalistic.

Google owns 14%, Amazon 15-20%, founders 20-25%, VC ~30%. MS and NVIDIA ~5%.

They have a Kill Switch, but the reality is Anthropic is just one boardroom crisis away from becoming exactly like OpenAI

Google and Amazon don't have voting rights (because of competition laws), but they supply compute (survival rights)

find bugs for free at first. implement negative reputation for BS bugs

for most people linux is the least secure. linux assumes the user knows what they are doing, whereas windows and mac os assume the user needs protection.

battery management, ARM chips, SoC ram, only decent trackpad in laptops, only good audio output in laptops (3V RMS for 150+ Ohm headphones. literally no other laptop has it), etc. These things are only possible on Macs because of economies of scale. But the most important part, to me, is software. again, economies of scale -- almost every polished app comes to Mac OS as the first OS because of the monetization potential per install. Then apps for Windows or Linux are often an afterthought or are non-native.

Mac OS is not great, no platform is perfect. Gotta think what is important to you. Are you using your machine as a thin client? Then maybe Linux is fine. Windows is obviously tragic -- zero advantages there.

about the article, Mac OS can be gutted via disabling SIP (I'm doing it on 1 macbook air), but we have so much compute and RAM that it doesn't make much sense for most use cases. I know that some companies do this with minis/studios to make makeshift servers.

yup. watch "the interview" with MLK he clearly explains what he thinks about violent insurrection.

the article is whitewashing

have you seen the M chips? to me that revolutionized computing. supercomputer-level latency for in-ram operations on a $2k laptop

this is good. down with copyright.

Peter, use your main

how is apple, overall, so good at this?

i agree on the software level, but then we have hardware. M cpus, touchpads, battery life. it's hard to justify using PC hardware.

x86? max 96GB RAM? is this a joke?

This is where LLMs agents work well. Micro-micro-services.