CosmicChimp writes:
Apple proprietary stuff is for rich people.
You mean iPhones or Macs or the whole ecosystem? Anyway, Apple has no cheap or base level models, so the cost of entry is higher on average, but Apple's prices have plenty of company among equivalent desktops, laptops and cell phones.
I like Windows machines, used them for development for years, but I finally got tired of the expense and the "reinstall all my software from scratch and copy over all data and read it back in" drudgery (particularly Apache, MySQL, PHP, Outlook and iTunes) that I had to repeat every two or three years because they'd fail or become unreliable. I've never had a MacBook fail or go wonky, and when I upgrade, as I recently did, Migration Assistant brings everything over automatically in a couple hours, including every single setting no matter how obscure as far as I can tell, from the old Mac to the new.
There
*was* a problem with Apache and PHP on the new Apple Silicon. The Apache httpd.conf file I've used for years and years across a couple Macs no longer worked, and finding the offending directives took several hours of trial and error (Nothing in error.log. I have no idea why they didn't work and do not know what loading the modules mod_slotmem_shm.so and mod_negotiation.so does. I looked them up but my background and experience do not run much in that direction and I didn't understand the explanations.). And PHP is no longer preinstalled on Monterey, so I had to install it myself.
Another problem: I discovered a couple productivity apps that didn't work on the new Apple silicon. They run fine, they just don't do anything. They are fluor and Alt-Tab. I expect this situation is common.
--Percy