This guy is becoming too much of an apple apologist for me. I've seen him defending pretty bad decisions like John Gruber (who always was) so I've stopped following him like I have Gruber.
Also, because I've disagreed so much with Apple's decisions in the past years I've abandoned their ecosystem altogether so I'm also much less invested in the topic. Though I still use a Mac for work as a "least bad" option.
Too bad because he did have good technical insights.
Ps I know this is a kinda hot take but everything Apple has rubbed me the wrong way the past 10 years and I'm less and less aligned with Apple fans. I know this doesn't apply to everyone.
In 2004 I moved to Mac because it was a powerful and configurable Unix OS with the benefit of a consistent UI (nothing on Linux was there then, it was a mess) and major commercial apps like Office and Photoshop.
The latter are still true but the platform is so locked-in that most of its features are useless to me as a multi-OS person. And the hardware is quite locked down as well which simply doesn't work for me. A lot of the reasons for this are not user-centric but commercial.
I agree. There is more of us by the day. Don't worry, Apple is going to feel it soon enough.
We will see in 10 years, Apple strategy will look very stupid because you will be able to get what are today's 2.5K powerful gaming computers for about 1K. Apple computers will be like Porsches, very nice and all but unless you got free money, really not something most people would consider buying. In other words, a niche; very pretty, but still a tiny market.
Also, because I've disagreed so much with Apple's decisions in the past years I've abandoned their ecosystem altogether so I'm also much less invested in the topic. Though I still use a Mac for work as a "least bad" option.
Too bad because he did have good technical insights.