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1. I did not mention Apple's own native apps as a perfect example. I have also noticed Activity Monitor as an imperfect sample. I'm not sure if it's a limitation of the APIs available, or if Apple engineers just fucked up. I 100% agree that Activity Monitor takes up far more resources than it should. Then again, monitoring every single process (plus thousands of threads!) running on an operating system is an intensive undertaking, so I'm not entirely sure who to blame, if anyone.

2. I will 100% defend Christian until the end of days. I respect the fact you at least know his name, assuming that you can in return understand that everything he does is amazing. Yes, some of what he does directly counteracts the weaknesses that are innate to the Apple platform (which should be called out against Apple). His most recent release, for example, offers a "Smart Rotation Lock", which swaps between portrait and landscape depending on whether a GIF or video is playing; something Apple should have built in from day one. Also, he had a volume bar in top-left corner on iPhone X and beyond before Apple even made that standard. IMO everything he does to break the "Apple philosophy" winds up getting adopted by Apple. Christian is that good.

3. Everything I said above, whether already existing at Apple or pushed towards the future, is already better than Windows or Linux. MacOS and iOS are positioned to take over the future of computing, minus one mother-fucking aspect (fuck you, Apple): gaming. Even if Metal is technically superior, vendor-lock at Apple makes Metal worthless vs. DirectX and OpenGL. This is the only thing I am willing to abdicate… Apple+MacOS+iOS needs to figure out how to play nice with cross-platform gaming.