I'm sorry you've had negative experiences with Mac, but I don't think this is a fair characterization.
It is what it is. And I have learned from those experiences to opt out. I do still like my iPod Nano. I loved the "click wheel" and was disappointed with my cable TV remote for not having such a useful feature. In my opinion, getting rid of the click wheel was a big mistake. When the battery in my iPod Nano finally dies, I hope I can still find a replacement for it on amazon.
"TextEdit" and "Terminal" are both in the Applications directory, (though "Terminal" is actually in Applications/Utilities). They aren't hidden.
Maybe
now they're not, but they certainly were on the first-gen iMac nearly two decades ago, which is what I'm talking about. Like in that video I've offered,
Why I don't use Apple products (don't know why the embedding doesn't work), he had gotten an iPhone to replace his BlackBerry on which he could copy and paste only to discovered that the iPhone didn't support copy-and-paste. Even though it does support that now doesn't mean that his statement and complaint are wrong because it didn't at the time he's talking about.
I'm not a Mac bigot. I use Linux for development and Windows for home type things like finance and email. I only started using Mac a few years ago when I started programming in Swift. Seems fine, and I like that my MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone are all automatically in sync with texting, phoning, FaceTiming, music and photos.
So the main benefits you get from iStuff is playing around, plus developing ways of playing around, while your actual productive work is with non-Apple systems. And hasn't that been my main point? That when I want to get something done iStuff wouldn't do the job. Plus all my decades of training, knowledge, and experience would just get thrown out the window, because with iStuff I'd have to relearn how to do everything (and in an illogical manner, which would add insult to injury). Why would I want that?
Converting the US to the metric system would be a possible analogy. I know the metric system and like it much more than the US system. A couple quotes I collected for my upcoming page on the subject:
quote:
In the 2014 American-Swedish sit-com,
Welcome to Sweden, an American's Swedish fiancée is giving him directions over the phone:
She: Go 200 meters and turn right.
He: What's a meter?
She: It's like a yard only much more logical.
From Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Christoph Waltz shopping in a Santa Monica hardware store for a measuring tape:
Waltz: I am trying to find something in centimeters.
Seinfeld: Why?
Waltz: Why? Because inches don't make sense.
In high school and college I worked part-time in construction. Every single time I had to take a measurement in 1/32 and 1/64 of an inch, I had to do fraction arithmetic in my head -- maybe if I had worked with those measurements every day I would have eventually memorized them, but needless to say I had to do the math every single time. First day on the job in Germany I was given a Meterstock and told to take a measurement and it was so incredibly easy. Then learning the simple equivalency based on water of the metric units of length, volume, and mass eliminated the need to track down an esoteric conversion table to solve certain problems (eg, how much water would a tank of certain dimensions contain and how much would it weigh?): 1 cubic centimeter is 1 milliliter and 1 ml water is 1 gram. Recently I handed a bag of 4 500-ml bottles of water to a friend just out of the hospital (so she was limited in how much she could lift) and she asked me how heavy it was: 2 liters of water is 2 kg which is about 4.4 lb, so I immediately told her that it was nearly but less than 5 lb, which was her limit. Also in physics class working in the MKS or cgs systems was very clean and straightforward, but the US foot-pound-second system was a cumbersome mess. Simple calculations and simple conversions, unlike the mess which is the US system.
So I am in favor of the US finally converting to the metric system, but I am also aware of some of the problems. Mainly, we have grown up being able to visualize the length, size, and heft of objects based on the US system, so that converting to metric would require us to learn those estimation skills all over again (like converting from real computers to Macs would require us to junk all our existing skills and require us to learn new ones). Also, there are certain set measurements that all tradesmen and bakers and cooks have learned and use every day at work which would either have to be converted and re-learned or else require a second set of special measurements in addition to metric. A third problem is in the transition when someone makes a mistake converting or using the wrong system of measurements and you end up with a
Gimli Glider or a crashed spacecraft on Mars.
The last two might not apply to switching to iStuff, but the first one should. Switching to iStuff requires forgetting almost everything we have ever learned about using a computer and learning an entirely new system. Outside that analogy are the additional problems that iStuff is not as useful and productive and it operates within an isolated environment, so we go through all that trouble in order to get less.
An example is my friend's and my recent trips to Europe. Before the first trip, she got an iPad to use mainly for taking photos and was constantly cursing the estupido thing all the way across Austria and Germany. When we returned, we exchanged photos (she took about 10 times more than I did). Before the second trip (northern Italy) she got an iPhone X which seemed to work well, though she also still had the iPad and still cursed it. However, upon returning from that trip, we could not exchange photos because the iPhone now uses a proprietary graphic format that can only display on an iStuff device that's new enough to support that format. She can't even view those photos on her Windows 10 laptop without special third-party conversion software.
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