I wonder what it's like to still feel like this is relevant
Dude's got jokes from before the twin towers fell
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Imagine still arguing PC vs Mac in 2023.
It certainly was a gish gallop of pure nonsense. Made me nostalgic for PCMR a decade ago.
You may not realize it, but unless we're talking processors Apple almost always puts old tech in their devices.
Their laptops still sell with 8gb of slow RAM, and tiny hard drives. This is an upsell tactic so you pay them extortionate amounts for cheap upgrades. Then their computers... Oh man, just don't. They sell that's $1,000, do we even need to go into the rest?
Even their phones STILL lack the latest features of their competitors. Though most competitors have vastly given up dramatic innovations. Check out the cameras, the screen refresh rates, the RAM, the screen brightness, and side-by-side user comparison testing of their poorly performing GPU's.
I'm not a Mac stan by any measure. It just feels like a tired bit. How are people still laughing about this?
I'm not laughing... I find the whole thing kind of depressing. Real talk, though... I'm just as pissed off at Google and many other huge companies.
I'm tired of huge companies exploiting the ignorance of average folks and damaging the progression of consumer technology. We deserve better than this.
If Apple sold their products for a pittence, I'd be their absolute biggest fan. They not only push aggressively overpriced tech, but they convince impressionable people to buy into their "ecosystem".
What the heck is that, even? What is their "ecosystem"? Macs, iPads and iphones all work with windows and Linux. Heck, Mac IS Linux at a core level. I'll tell you what it is... George Carlin give me strength, because "it's all bullshit, and it's BAD for you."
Mac is not Linux. They're similar, but not the same
I never claimed Linux and Mac were exactly the same. They are both kernals of UNIX. Though they differ, they use the same "core".
I’m trying to imagine having any part of my identity tied to an object.
I've had people tell me they won't text me because of the green chat bubbles.
Idk. Consumers will consume.
I get my MacBooks from employers. That's it.
They're way better than the shitbox windows machines most companies hand out.
Never buy Mac shit yourself
I keep asking my IT department for the top-end MacBook Pro, but they keep denying my request. They always go on and on about how I am a Team Lead on the production line, and that there is no legitimate reason as to why I would need any laptop at all. Bunch of penny pinchers if you ask me. Hell, I’ve been asking for a company card since my interview! They laugh every time I bring it up—It’s like this some big joke. Though to be fair, they said if I show up on time each day to work, I get to keep my job.
Why are you asking IT for these things, isn't this a request for idk accounting or some other department that is about spending money?
Shit that’s a great idea! I should make a presentation, just to really “wow” them. I could show it at our next safety and wellness meeting. I’m not invited to those meetings, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind!
I appreciate your effort here, even if nobody else recognizes it.
Thank you! I entertain myself with my silly posts 😜
Bless'd is he who can laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be amused.
Same. I’d never buy one, but man are they nicer than anything else I’ve had.
Who made you butthurt OP?
What is this the 2010's again? Why are so many people shitting on people's choices? If you like something then do it. End of story. If someone gives you shit for that they are the asshole
Y'all need to get over yourselves
I'm sorry, but no. Apple is more than a "choice" - they have been damaging the progress of consumer technology for over a decade now. Their success in selling overpriced, dated, and uninnovative technology has driven all their competition to avoid "risky" innovation, and to mimic low-cost, consumer-hostile practices.
It's okay to shit on a company. What you're doing is defending a focused attack on a brand. Get over yourself. Apple doesn't need your help, they are the wealthiest company in the entire world right now.
The title says apple users but sure take the least graceful interpretation of things since this is Lemmy
Bruh it’s not that deep. Just let people like what they like without shitting on them.
I'm not shitting on people at all. I never say a word to my friends with iphones and macs unless they specifically try to convince me they are the best.
I'm shitting on Apple. A company. Despite what some politicians want you to believe, I don't think companies are people.
The comment you originally replied to was about letting people choose what they like to choose. Your comment shat upon the idea and then went off on an angry tangent.
The original comment was unironically shitting on someone's comedic opinion of Apple, a company.
If you own apple products, good for you. I don't care in the least, nor will I judge you.
I do care about Apple selling them for the prices they do, though. And for their business practices making it hard to repair and maintain said devices. In my opinion, this makes them a shitty company.
Did you pull this out of 2011? Even as a lifelong Android user with no plans of switching, I realize that there are certain features of the Apple ecosystem that blow Android out of the water. Even the top-line Samsung S23U photo processing looks like a shitty DSLR compared to whatever iPhone is out now.
Shitty DSLR?
Not sure why they used this term. A DSLR is a camera most often used by professionals in the industry.
Digital single lense reflex cameras, such as the Canon 5d Mk IV, are still excellent cameras that outperform their smaller sensored counterparts in phones.
This said, many like myself have moved on to mirrorless in recent years. I'm not sure I miss anything other than the satisfying "click" from my DSLR's.
Idk in the comparison between Pixel 8 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro i actually much prefer the Pixel, but maybe that's just my taste.
ehh cameras are basically on-par now
the processors on the other hand....no competition by FAR both on phones and laptops. sadly there's too many downsides for me to consider getting them
Even a shitty (okay, maybe most like my D5300) DSLR beats any phone with proper lenses any day.
Yeah that’s bullshit.
Hand Joe Sixpack a high-end DSLR (or MILC, since it’s 2023) and an iPhone and I’ll bet you he’ll take better pictures with the iPhone.
What dedicated cameras do is give you more options; you can change lenses, add filters, change exposure, etc. You have much more creative control. Sure, you also get better optics but that doesn’t matter much in the hands of an amateur.
Phones do a shitload of processing on the captured images. A DSLR does little to nothing. You are expected to do that yourself on your computer afterwards (again, more creative control where the phone makes those decisions for you).
The automated processing on phones does an excellent job for the kind of snapshots an average user wants to make. Much better than what they would be able to do themselves.
If you know what you’re doing you can do amazing things with a DSLR/MILC but in the hands of the general public the phone will give much better results 100% of the time.
A good camera doesn’t make great pictures, a good photographer does. Don’t buy an expensive camera thinking your pictures will suddenly look amazing. They will look much worse than the pictures your phone makes until you learn how to properly use it and how to process those images.
So, as a professional, working photographer I can tell you this comment makes no sense to me.
I've only bought two Samsung phones over the last ten years, but they have never failed to make the best mobile phone camera since I started keeping track in 2013.
It seems like you're talking specifically about processing, so perhaps that's the hangup here... I focus on RAW, and use other specialty services to process. You can never go wrong with Samsung (so far) if you want to best potential RAW image.
ecosystem used as tech word
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I just like Logic Pro man
I am the unholy combo.
Apple and Linux
They make some nice hardware, if money were no object I'd probably get a MacBook and put Linux on it
Yeah my logic is this, I have many computers and a Mac, one day apple will stop updating MacOS. When that happens I will install linux on my Mac.
Bought a MacBook Air in 2012 lasted me until last year and I got a new one. The old one got Linux put in it and given to one of the kids still runs great.
I don’t really think I can say that about any other laptops I have used over the years for work.
Much better to use a phone running an os built by an advertising company who decided that “don’t be evil” just isn’t them anymore.
A product isn’t just what parts go inside.
"Hey man, this bad thing that X group does isn't actually bad because their main competition, Y group, does something different that is also bad."