[whstl]

At this point this is not an argument anymore, it’s just a thought terminating cliche.

Expecting users to change their daily habits in order to marginally improve the operating system of a trillion dollar company feels naive and a bit disrespectful to people who actually use these machines for work.

Even developers… the vast majority of developers ignored Apple for decades (and Apple was also hostile) and it managed to grow despite that.

Might as well ask people to contribute to Gnome or whatever so in the future everyone can go somewhere better. Feels way more feasible.

[rickdeckard]

But the opposite is assuming that Apple has a "responsibility" towards its existing users and has to acknowledge their expectations from them.

A sentiment which famously led Steve Jobs to respond that he doesn't understand this, because "people pay us to make that decision for them" and "If people like our products they will buy them; if they don't, they won't" [0]

So according to Steve Jobs himself, the only Apple-acknowledged way to disagree with Apple is to NOT buy their products, and by extend into the services-world of today it means STOP USING their products.

Now Steve Jobs doesn't officially run this company anymore, but I don't see any indication that this philosophy has changed in any way.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps&t=772s

[whstl]

I don't think that's the opposite. The opposite is admitting that people have more than one reason to choose computers, and "voting with your wallet" only works for easily replaceable items, like groceries, clothing, etc.

Most people are not going to migrate to Android, Windows, Linux or whatever else just to make macOS marginally better.

And it's fine: marginal quality improvements of a product are not the "responsibility" of consumers.