You know, I was an Apple customer and fan before it was/made you popular to use the fruity tech products. From before iPhone, before iPod, before even the iMac.
iPod was a great advance in portable, digital music in the early aughts. Apple’s engineers deserves praise for that. The iPhone in 2007 broke new ground with intuitive, useable, beautiful-UI touchscreen phones. Apples designers deserves praise for that.
After that, it was a slow slide into high-efficiency streamlining of everything, including of deception of the customer base.
I was once an Apple fan. I am not anymore, and havent been for over a decade.
I was once an Apple customer, having thrown tens of thousands of DKK after Apple products and the products of their associated peripheral makers. Haven’t done so for a decade.
Apple products are by and large the best they have ever been when you sum up everything, and yet Apple is now the worst they have ever been, if you factor in ethics considerations.
Apple didn’t lose the platform wars; the users lost – much money and your freedom, as you get herded deeper into Apple’s walled garden by Tim Cook & his association of Crooks.
What Apple does best is international, legal money laundering. Screw em. Use Linux.