Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up

Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by vram22 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @02:44PM (#13798091)

>First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Computer company who also made a phone. Then they became a computer company who also made a phone and a tablet. Then they became a phone company who also made computers and tablets.

>Now they are a phone company who presides over the death throws of an amazing operating system that is going to be killed off to make it more like a phone. The new "features" every cycle are more "lets put this phone feature on the desktop"

I don't know much about this area, other than the little I have read, but didn't MS do somewhat the same thing - "lets put this phone feature on the desktop" - with Windows 8? Not sure if they reversed that in Windows 10. Interested to know.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by jackfoxy on Sunday March 05, 2017 @03:09PM (#13798237)

Windows 8 was ridiculous, and one of the things that gave MS a big wake up call. Its now a different company. Windows 10 is leaps better in about every way than 8 (not without its own issues, of course). Disclosure: I am a MS MVP. MS will listen to me in almost every area I care about.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by vram22 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @03:28PM (#13798389)

Interesting. Yes, though I've never used Win 8 (and don't want to), from the little I had read, it seemed like the idea of trying to merge the mobile and desktop paradigms was a bad idea from the start, and doomed to fail.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by scholia on Sunday March 05, 2017 @04:31PM (#13798805)

Windows 8 didn't merge the mobile and desktop paradigms, it put the mobile paradigm over the top of the desktop.

The apps stuff (Windows Runtime) was actually quite well done for a first try, but it was unfamiliar to Win32 users and got in the way. (Only one click away, but people are impatient and resist change.)

Windows 10 does an excellent job of merging apps and traditional programs, though it's not strictly correct to equate apps and mobile. Windows 10 is a mobile operating system that runs apps from an app store, but you can resize apps and run them seamlessly alongside traditional Win32 programs.

You can still run Windows 10 in tablet (Windows 8/8.1) mode if you want to. I don't know anyone who does.

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Re:Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up by domenukk on Sunday March 05, 2017 @05:28PM (#13799208)

I, strangely enough, sometimes run Windows in Tablet mode and use it as tiling window manager. Works surprisingly well. Try it sometime.

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