itgrrl :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timixretroplays</span></a></span> very tight integration between hardware & OS, for both good (excellent battery life) & ill (very expensive) </p><p>very un-customisable <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> (you can’t even change colours much) with many suboptimal design choices, especially when it comes to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> (e.g. tiny controls that ignore Fitts’ Law; tiny fonts with minimal ability to re-size & inconsistent application of font sizes across the OS & even core Apple apps; text replacement shortcuts not available in all apps, even Apple ones, etc.) </p><p>lots of games unavailable for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> </p><p>starting to shovel Apple “Intelligence” into their newer devices that support it (anything with an NPU) </p><p>for iOS apps (increasingly, macOS & iOS are merging), setting opt-out defaults across all apps that have to be disabled one-by-one rather than providing a “switch this crap off everywhere” option (and rather than making them opt-in to begin with) </p><p>despite this, while I don’t trust Apple with my data or <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>, I trust them a (metric) 🤬-ton more than <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> (or <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>)</p><p>impenetrable design choices for how they do certain things - iMovie & Garage Band are just 🤪, Apple Photos whisks your original photos away into a database that’s tricky to get them back out of, managing the Music app syncing with a phone is ridiculous (whatever you do, NEVER let the Music app “manage your music for you”, it splits albums up all over the place & you’ll never get them back together again)</p><p>so much <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/abstraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abstraction</span></a> that’s antithetical to anyone who grew up learning what files, directories, & filesystems are… </p><p>so sure, I use it - but I wouldn’t say it’s a pleasure to use, even when compared with Windows 😠😡🤬 or Linux (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ </p><p>in short, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/EveryOSsucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EveryOSsucks</span></a> 🙃</p>