It would technical possible for Apple to have dual boot, and you could boot macOS when you connect to an external display. But I guess it would not be good for business
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That wouldn't be even needed. Just add back macos features to iOS and iPadOS
- Phones are computers.
- Phones are the most popular personal computers in the world.
- Many people only have a phone and no other computers.
It’s me. Outside work, I dumped PCs a decade back and have lived a much better digital life.
I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.
I mainly just turn mine on. Not a lot of work.
I mean, it's been a lot of work lately because I'm learning a new OS and mucking about with shuffling some data around on a couple different drives, but for the last 5 years or so, the "work" involved in keeping my desktop running was mainly plugging it in again after moving to a new apartment.
I hate using a phone. It's small, the screen is tiny, the keyboard sucks (all touchscreen keyboards suck), you can't have more than one thing in the tiny screen at a time (yes split screen exists and Android has freeform windows, but they suck even more).
A desktop is a breeze to use. It feels liberating to use after being on a phone.
Ugh sounds like my nightmare. I try to keep the phone away and only use desktops or laptops. I just use the phone for calls, texts, photos when I don't have a better camera, Lemmy/rss and some light web browsing.
I seriously get annoyed at the amount of work it takes to keep a PC running.
Can you elaborate more on that? In my experience unless you set up a complicated NAS or home server setup maintaining a personal computer doesn’t require much upkeep. I prefer it over a phone because of the physical keyboard and superior window / tab / organization options.
PS: Wrote this comment from my phone anyway 🥲
“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.
better yet, open source it when it gets abandoned.
full on, no excuses. all board schematics, source code and documentation.
shit, require it from the start.
The problem is that it allows users to detect when they're connected to a phony cell tower like the ones police and ICE use to intercept communications, and we Can't Have That.
They have been since the beginning.
That's literally why I got an OG Motorola Droid.
I said to myself "I can have a full computer in my pocket!"
I went to the Verizon store to buy an iPhone when the droid first launched, the rep said "you don't want that phone, check this one out" and showed me the droid. So glad I didn't get roped into that ecosystem.
I still miss CyanogenMod dearly...
Yah. It had customizations nobody has anymore.
I am actually very, very, very seriously looking at post-market OS since it is mainline Linux on a phone.
The whole point of the article is that the new MacBooks are running on iPhone hardware. And that therefore there's no reason for you not being able to install MacOS on your iPhone. Even your old droid was locked down and you were not able to install a real OS which would have given you the freedom to run what you want without restrictions
The only difference is UI. I operate my phone in my hand with my thumb, not on my lap or on a desk from a keyboard.
It wasn't locked down. I rooted it, installed a few OS's, it even ran Linux.
I understand the point of the article. I'm saying since the very beginning, the only limits on what smartphones can do, have been what software 'they' want you to run.
A CPU is a CPU. Some are faster or slower, but they can all do anything.
This. But Marketing has been very good at saying "this: phone, that: computer. not same thing". So many times I heard "Oh but how do you want to do that on a phone?". It's not a phone. It has never been a phone.
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Im surely not the only one who thinks this article is ai generated? it spams the exact same structure and has the typical smells
I will risk dying of laughter if THIS is what finally pisses off the Apple cult.
There are "pissed off, not the same, Jobs wouldn'ta dunit" sentiments for almost every new product by Apple.
So I don't think anything will change much.
Anyway, this is a return to roots. They were, you know, a mainstream consumer oriented company at some point. With an implicit but almost explicit claim that "we don't do the crap others do".
I'm optimistic. It's quality attacking quantity. We've had a personal computer market with quantity winning over quality every damn year since about 2003, and it has been getting worse and worse. If the pendulum is starting to move in the opposite direction, it's very cool.
And yes, megabytes of RAM are quantity.
But admittedly I'm a couple weeks' old convert.
We have been complaining about this shit for YEARS.
And yet... you still... never mind. Not worth it.
I’m annoyed at the state of Apple’s app ecosystem. MacOS is worse this year than it’s been in a long time and I’m not updating on Macs that I control.
But have you used a windows pc recently? It’s like banging rocks together. Somehow, they keep finding ways to make it worse every year. Or month. So yeah, I’m using a Mac because it’s the less terrible option.
(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)
So I've recently started using a Mac mini, and it's very good. But I'll agree that I don't like Liquid Glass. I'm using, eh, a 1280x1024 dinosaur display over an hdmi-2-vga adapter, so can't confirm nausea from it, but sore eyes are a thing.
(And good luck getting your IT people at work letting you put Linux on your laptop.)
What am I gonna do? Stop myself?
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You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.
I mean, a .tar would have made sense as example here; unzip is also a tool ("app"). And not merely for convenience, the format is not simple. Unlike tar, which you could dd to unpack.
The quote is funny for me, I can't extract a zip file without a dedicated application, I don't speak the language of ~~moisture vaporators~~ deflate, and certainly not fast enough.
I’ll care about climate change the day they do.
But every time I need to throw away perfectly good electronics makes me resentful of the idea that climate change is our fault any further than the fact these fucking people breathe air in Minecraft.
Makes me think of either the Fairphone or the Nothing Phone that originally advertised that it could be used as a desktop computer thanks to USB-C ports and I thought that was a brilliant notion. I really don't see why Apple couldn't just do the same. I mean, I can see why (DAT MONAY!) but it would be awesome for folks to have such flexibility with their devices.
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