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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by frollogaston on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:58PM (#43406202)
Docker is fine on Mac but still a small sliver of user base, and nobody is buying a Mac to play games. For all those other general uses, they're better, that's why they buy them. Battery lasts long, fan doesn't spin up, you don't get harassed by Windows, you don't deal with Linux Bluetooth drivers. Not for style.

Apple Watch for style, sure. It's a watch after all. Not that it actually looks good.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by that_guy_iain on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @03:39AM (#43409170)
Docker is slow on Macs. That’s why there are multiple packages to try and solve it. And still it’s slow. And that is a massive amount of people.

Plenty of people play games on Macs. It may not be the purpose they bought it does they bought it for general use and that’s part of the general use for many.

For general uses they aren’t better. They cost more. You’re unable to upgrade them. They have less ports and require dongles. The list goes on.

I’ve not had any issues with Linux Bluetooth drivers is so long I can’t even remember when.

You may buy macs now because you’re used to them and you think they’re better. But really you got into macs because of the brand. Because there are very few areas where it is truly better than the others.

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