To be fair, the hardware is excellent. Overpriced as hell, especially considering that you can’t upgrade it yourself and the prices Apple charges for RAM and storage are ridiculous, but you can’t really argue with the quality. The locked-down, inflexible software and basically forcing you buy into the whole ecosystem if you want your devices to work together is the issue.
Apple products are fashion devices that work pretty well most of the time. I don’t think they’re the best by any stretch, but they have a consistent design aesthetic and pretty complex engineering (and that complexity is where problems lie).
Anyway, buy what you like, just don’t delude yourself into thinking they’re a step above everything else. Google Pixel has a better camera, ThinkPads have better keyboards, and AMD MiniPCs (e.g. minisforum) are more compact. Buy what fits your needs, but don’t just knee-jerk buy Apple because it’s “better,” whatever that means.
To be fair, the hardware is excellent. Overpriced as hell, especially considering that you can’t upgrade it yourself and the prices Apple charges for RAM and storage are ridiculous, but you can’t really argue with the quality. The locked-down, inflexible software and basically forcing you buy into the whole ecosystem if you want your devices to work together is the issue.
Well, I’ll go ahead and argue about quality then.
Apple products are fashion devices that work pretty well most of the time. I don’t think they’re the best by any stretch, but they have a consistent design aesthetic and pretty complex engineering (and that complexity is where problems lie).
Anyway, buy what you like, just don’t delude yourself into thinking they’re a step above everything else. Google Pixel has a better camera, ThinkPads have better keyboards, and AMD MiniPCs (e.g. minisforum) are more compact. Buy what fits your needs, but don’t just knee-jerk buy Apple because it’s “better,” whatever that means.
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any of Louis Rossmann’s videos recommending against Apple devices
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