[firecall]

Well I never!

Side note: I wonder how much harm Apple is doing to it's brand with it's Pious Attitude and Arrogant Behaviour?

Even as a long time, but relatively small shareholder, I'm on the fence about Apple right now.

I cant see the iPhone failing to lay golden eggs anytime soon.

But the Apple Vision Pro feels like they took those golden eggs and gold platted a toilet seat.

Tim Cook runs a tight shop, but he's been riding the wave of iPhone growth and the engineering excellence that gave us Apple Silicon.

The overall Apple brand hasnt been doing so well IMHO, and it's the Brand that saved Apple back in the 90s!

You cant fake passion, and everytime we see Tim Cook on stage or presenting, I get the vibe he would rather be somewhere else!

[staplers]

Interesting to see this downvoted. I've been on Apple for over 15 years and feel exactly the same. The ice is getting a lot thinner and I've been looking at options how to move out of their ecosystem.

[rokkitmensch]

It's not that Linux on the desktop is closing the gap to Windows and MacOS, but that the latter two are aggressively shitting in the wine and gaslighting long-term users about the incredible improvements delivered every year. See: multi-monitor support, display management in general, window management, the accursed Spaces conceits, relocation of menubar toggles for sound and Bluetooth every OS release, pointless shuffling of the Settings app every release, comical degradation of iTunes over time... the list goes on.

My kids are coming up on Linux, and are never going to have the hallowed halls of 10.6 to look back on fondly.

It's sad, but every year I feel in a new way that we're merely strolling through a once-glorious cathedral built and abandoned by great engineers from a different era.

I felt this way at Google ~5 years ago, and left as soon as I could slip the golden handcuffs.

[firecall]

Yes, I thought so LOL

Lots of comments, but yet the downvotes! :-)

I guess I'm long past being on the internet for upvote points LOL