Re:Why I quit using SwiftUI
by dangus on Sunday August 28, 2022 @06:09PM
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I view it a different way: macOS and many of Apple's built-in apps/utilities are, at the very least, a less bad option compared to many others.
OS utilities like Image Capture, Preview, Apple's screenshot utilities, Spotlight, Quick Look, and quite a few others have been basically "killer apps" that make me want to use macOS over Windows for decades now.
Even basic areas like system settings have been a point of frustration for Windows for an extremely long time now, with Microsoft taking many years to truly migrate off of the Control Panel and deliver something half-decent in the Settings app. The Windows 11 iteration finally starts to feel like it's a little bit cohesive (but I still hate the Devices settings panel). The whole situation has really been a mess going back to Windows 8.
Another example: anytime someone says that printers universally suck I know immediately that they're Windows users because of just how much better Macs interact with printers and scanners and how much better and more reliable their configuration interface is. Apple single-handedly saved the entire printer industry from the depths of hell with AirPrint, before that Bonjour, and before that shipping OS X with preinstalled printer drivers.
Windows 10 couldn't decide what screenshot app I was supposed to use, thank goodness it's been consolidated after Windows 10's inclusion of two separate apps both worse than Apple's tooling.
Plus, Apple has to get credit for the sheer number of decently high quality non-enterprise apps that Apple just gives you for free.
Microsoft doesn't make anything that approaches the quality you get from Apple's free iMovie, Photos, Podcasts, Books, iTunes/Music, Contacts, Mail, Pages/Keynote/Numbers (without paying).
OS utilities like Image Capture, Preview, Apple's screenshot utilities, Spotlight, Quick Look, and quite a few others have been basically "killer apps" that make me want to use macOS over Windows for decades now.
Even basic areas like system settings have been a point of frustration for Windows for an extremely long time now, with Microsoft taking many years to truly migrate off of the Control Panel and deliver something half-decent in the Settings app. The Windows 11 iteration finally starts to feel like it's a little bit cohesive (but I still hate the Devices settings panel). The whole situation has really been a mess going back to Windows 8.
Another example: anytime someone says that printers universally suck I know immediately that they're Windows users because of just how much better Macs interact with printers and scanners and how much better and more reliable their configuration interface is. Apple single-handedly saved the entire printer industry from the depths of hell with AirPrint, before that Bonjour, and before that shipping OS X with preinstalled printer drivers.
Windows 10 couldn't decide what screenshot app I was supposed to use, thank goodness it's been consolidated after Windows 10's inclusion of two separate apps both worse than Apple's tooling.
Plus, Apple has to get credit for the sheer number of decently high quality non-enterprise apps that Apple just gives you for free.
Microsoft doesn't make anything that approaches the quality you get from Apple's free iMovie, Photos, Podcasts, Books, iTunes/Music, Contacts, Mail, Pages/Keynote/Numbers (without paying).