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2026-10-25 00:30 UTC

and here’s the thing right for a period of time, apple had a group of customers who liked their products because they were a good value capacitive touch hooked up to a good UI was worth the money macOS was a pretty good unix hooked up to a good UI macbook pros had their issues some years, but the power management was excellent people have been calling apple a brand that people only bought to be fashionable for years, and it wasn’t accurate back then unfortunately, I think apple agreed with those people. cause none of the above applies to apple devices anymore. there’s nothing particularly special about any ios device, and the UI is jankier than ever. they fired all their old unix pros. your MacBook Pro would have great battery life… if the OS and the AI shit you can’t turn off without third-party patches (for now) weren’t sucking cycles they don’t need to apple always considered itself a fashion brand, and the people making it anything else have all been fired

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  • @zzt@mas.to 2026-10-25 00:37

    have you considered how big of an own goal it is to have a platform that can run ARM and x86_64 binaries very quickly, and instead of capitalizing on that you remove x86_64 emulation because it’s what Jobs did and slow everything down with a bunch of anti-features nobody wants, to the point where people believe in a mythical version of your company that’s anti-AI? imagine if instead of doing what jobs did but worse, macOS grew the ability to run everything. cause that’s the reason why linux got popular amongst normal people: valve poured a shit-ton of money into wine’s hard compatibility work (alongside a bunch of other tricky infrastructure) and now linux can just run windows shit imagine if macOS did something unexpected and became a fast universal platform. imagine if your expensive arm core could run x86_64 windows and linux shit alongside Mac shit but nah, fuck success. remove features people want instead and replace them with things nobody wants

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