• MudMan@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    Ah, so Apple just happens to be one of the good massive megacorps routinely deploying anti-consumer practices. Gotcha.

    See, it’s that gap in perception I’m interested in. Microsoft wants nothing more than having the closed ecosystem Apple has. From their Surface line to their much maligned store to their subscription-forward, always signed-in account environment.

    Why they suck so much at selling that where Apple can get away with murder is much more interesting to me than the perceived differences between the implementations, which I would argue in a number of cases are worked backwards from the brand perception anyway. Part of it is the implementation and the execution rakes Apple chooses not to step on, but certainly not all of it, and that’s fascinating.

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      9 hours ago

      so Apple just happens to be one of the good massive megacorps

      No they’re just a different type of shitty.

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        Right. But the reaction they get to their shittiness is very different, which is the thing I keep wondering about. Everybody keeps telling me why Microsoft is shitty and how Apple isn’t shitty in those ways specifically while conceding they are in others.

        I want to know why Apple’s shitty doesn’t make them the poster boy for shittiness but MS’s shitty does. And it does. As far back as Windows 95, Windows is the thing you use that you hate to use and love to hate. That takes work and luck. I want to know how you can dig that hole so effectively while your competition can be just as overtly crappy and still come across as sleek and all the way above good and evil. There’s a fundamental truth about branding and squishy human brains buried in that phenomenon.

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          1 hour ago

          I want to know why Apple’s shitty doesn’t make them the poster boy for shittiness but MS’s shitty does

          It doesn’t. They’re both shitty.

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            See, we disagree. You and I agree they’re both shitty. The rest of this social network does not, and the larger world ABSOLUTELY does not.

            I’d argue once you get into normie land entirely maybe MS starts losing some of the stink, too, but for a lot of that middle space the perception is absolutely not the same, which is why this thread exists in the first place.

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      9 hours ago

      M$ is trying to take an open system and forcibly close it - after driving their user base by force into an unstable OS

      Apple were smart enough to start locking their shit down before home computers became an absolute necessity …and do it with a functional OS

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        Apple locked down their shit way after home computers were a necessity. I’d argue it was the rollout of handheld devices that needed a home computer to fully work that made their walled garden viable.

        And Windows is the main player in home computer OSs. You can take issue with their choices, but it’s certainly functional. I’d argue Win11 is annoying, but not even in the top 3 least functional versions of Windows. I mean, I was there for Me, 8.0 and Vista.

        But yes, Apple successfully deployed a locked-down, closed space, and I’m curious about why people are ok with it. That they did it early is… a solid hypothesis, I suppose.

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          Nah, that shit started to creep in with the imacs - when system 7 became macos.

          Win 11 really isn’t functional. There is a serious brain drain problem in microsoft, and as a consequence they’ve broken some seriously fundamental shit (see: alt tab debacle) made some seriously stupid staff decisions (see: guy responsible for win11 start menu and how it’s coded) and somehow even managed to break their own printer spooler.

          Vista at least had the woe that it was forced into hardware packages that weren’t powerful enough to handle it, win 11 is just a steaming pile of garbage code.