I’m not aware of a term, but I’ve observed two distinct variations, and they’re hardly exclusive to Apple commenters. They are “<successful company> is doomed” and “<successful company> lost me as a customer.”
While the two often share points of contention, the former always makes the case that these points constitute a blind spot that will lead to the company’s downfall, while the latter focuses on how these points are at odds with their own needs or preferences.
Valid as any of their arguments may be, the focus of these pieces invariably seems to be companies that go on to greater successes, in spite of these supposed blind spots or losing a subset of vocal customers. Somehow “Blackberry is doomed” never caught on as a genre, while Apple’s doom never seems to go out of fashion.
"Apple isn’t going to lose because something better came along; it is going to lose because it shat the bed repeatedly for so many years that people like me are no longer going to want to sleep with it. " ... "Somehow, the fact that this "loss" isn’t actually going to hurt their bottom line in any significant way makes it all the more tragic. Apple will continue to rake in billions selling its overpriced portable devices — which surely bring as much suffering and ennui to the world as they do pleasure — while folks like me that have owned Macs for literally decades (since 1994 in my case), just want to craft beautiful and useful things, move off the platform."
Post-Jobsism, maybe?
For me the saddest part of modern Apple decline is software. Sure, they made some really horrible hardware blunders but on the whole the hardware is what keeps the company alive, and no one can compete. Little things, like HiDPI string you along year after year, but at the same time things like SIP chip away at your patience.
My 16” is a big upgrade from my 2017 15”, and I have very few complaints with the 8-core, 32GB model.
This has been a downgrade for me.
But yeah it’s redicules that We have to deal with this on a $3k laptop
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alright okay. for anyone having the issue, you have to go to your "security & privacy" -> click on padlock -> enter password -> click on "advanced". in the sheet disable "Log out after X min of inactivity".
Apple Death Knell Counter https://www.macobserver.com/features/death-knell/
"Apple has been declared dead 71 times since April, 1995."
...make that 72.
It it didn't come out of the box then it is not "just works" isn't it? heheh
Ubuntu is just-works too now. No apple-level HiDPI though.
However bad the lack of ports and butterfly keyboards are (which is now fixed). Nothing comes close to the hardware or the HiDPI handling in macbooks.
And macOS has popup ads. And Windows has apt-get which has far more packages than homebrew. Windows keyboards never went through a multi-year period of being awful. The OS supports touch. And the OS maker isn't trying to tell laptop purchasers not to buy a laptop.
The start menu can be customized to turn all of that off. If you want to pin your own things to it, you can.
WSL2 is going to drop soon. Looks like a good move by Microsoft.
What kind of work do you do exactly that disqualifies Windows from being a "serious option for real work"?
https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
See 'Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information'
Apple’s analytics are not comparable.
Really? I spent two minutes removing some default start menu items. My mac continually sent me pop ups insisting I use the Apple version of every product.
I honestly don’t see it on my machine though.
Ooh, new word. Haven’t seen a new word in months!
> The start menu can be customized to turn all of that off. If you want to pin your own things to it, you can.
Shouldn't be there in the first place, including all of the other advertising and telemetry.
> WSL2 is going to drop soon. Looks like a good move by Microsoft.
It'll be always a hack. Will never beat native Unix.
> What kind of work do you do exactly that disqualifies Windows from being a "serious option for real work"?
WSL is a hack, NTFS chokes on small files (web dev), advertising and telemetry.
Also, you're computer randomly shutting off and locking itself up, jesus christ what the fuck (TBH MacOS also has this but it's 100x easier to disable).
It is true that my 2020 Macbook Pro 16 is not as much better than the competition as my 2011 Macbook Air was.
But it is still definitely the best laptop I've ever owned. I keep my laptops, and I can reach for whichever one I want: 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018 in Air, 13", 15" and now 16" form factors, and I choose the 2020. I also daily reject a number of windows and Chromebook pieces of hardware in favor of the MBP16.
When I don't choose it, I most often choose my iPad pro at times or my iPhone.
A thorough and hard ecosystem-level look at realistic competitors just doesn't turn up anything that even comes close in terms of just "working".
Probably the closest would be an XPS developer running Ubuntu, but that is a completely different experience than the 'it just works' world I get to live in with my Macbook. And, by "it just works", I include a decent package manager with homebrew, a very solid neovim or spacemacs development environment, a fully working highdpi environment without 'quirks', ... the list goes on. And, Windows has no Unix underneath it plus it contains ads in the start menu. For me, it's just not a serious option for real work.
In all, I'd say that most people agree with me; the market seems to prefer this hardware.