[dana321]

Recent examples of why not to use apple:

1. Their new keyboards are terrible, and are buggy. 2. Lack of headphone jack on phones. 3. Vast price increases for relatively little new features. 4. Constant upgrading of the OS which breaks half of the software you use.

[hellofunk]

And a few good reasons to choose Apple:

My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week.

For development, I get a certified UNIX machine with an excellent user interface, best of both worlds for the vast majority of tasks we need using computers.

Apple makes money off me because I buy their products. I am myself not the product, their hardware is. This has so many natural side effects that benefit users, that it scares me to go in the direction of android.

The iPad is truly a revolutionary best in class device, I’ve not seen anything else that comes anywhere close to its quality for what it does.

[wayneftw]

> My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week.

It's not the only phone that does that and it's not a new feature. Even with older phones, you can simply get a battery case.

> with an excellent user interface

The user interface is terrible and all the core features are extremely limited with no extensibility whatsoever. Just about every other desktop OS has a better user interface.

> Apple makes money off me because I buy their products. I am myself not the product, their hardware is.

Actually, their iProducts are not even yours after you buy them. If you want to build an app for your own device you have to give Apple $100 every year just to be able to install it. So that puts them into a malignant category of their own.

> The iPad is truly a revolutionary best in class device...

...but only if you think iOS is any good or you don't value your own freedom.

[hellofunk]

Just to make sure I understand you and your perspective correctly, I'll isolate just your first point: You are saying that there is, in fact, no difference between a phone with a good battery and a different phone with a separate battery you must attach to it?

I believe this line of reasoning also explains your other points satisfactorily.

[wayneftw]

Incorrect. My first point was that the iPhone XR is not the first phone that only has to be charged once or twice a week.

My second point was that you can also extend the life of any phone with a battery case. And yes, after you install a batter case that uses pass-through charging there's essentially no difference.

> I believe this line of reasoning also explains your other points satisfactorily.

OK and I'll assume that your misreading, your misunderstanding and your incomplete response to my points stem from an intentionally weak interpretation.

[hellofunk]

> Actually, their iProducts are not even yours after you buy them. If you want to build an app for your own device you have to give Apple $100 every year just to be able to install it. So that puts them into a malignant category of their own.

FYI this has not been true for years.

[lern_too_spel]

It is true for all practical purposes. Nobody is going to resign and reinstall their apps weekly.

[rhodysurf]

Unless you pay, the provisioning for that app only last a week!

[xthestreams]

The new keyboards have been buggy, that's true. They're not buggy anymore afaik.

Personally, I'm not really into Apple but I love the new keyboard, and I use it as my main tool every day. It really bugs me when people make use of personal opinions as facts.

[saagarjha]

These aren’t really the kind of complaints that Stallman has, though.

[valuearb]

Constant upgrading of the operating system improves performance (iOS 12) and security. I’ve nit had any apps break from any of their updates.