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I'm fairly positive he's using the term "utility" in a normative sense. Like Bentham's principle of utility, which aims to quantify pain and pleasure in order to better architect a "utilitarian" (obviously) function with which to steer law.

Big Sur made it worse. For probably the greater part of the last 6-7 years I've felt Windows performs better on equivalent hardware (even after Mac OS fresh installs). By Big Sur it's so bad the latest Intel MacBooks chug on it.

That said, the M1 changes things, IME. It's just sad it takes that much.

How would 2) be dealt with? Python is handicapped to a much more meaningful degree than current mobile options, e.g. while Kotlin isn't as fast as Swift (and Swift's syntax is a strange PITA), Python is much slower than both, the only boon being the larger community surrounding it + legibility. OTOH, with the performance headroom on current devices, I suppose the performance loss matters less. Then again, Electron applications seem to inspire frustration across the spectrum with PC's and Macs.

As for 1): I agree.

As a tangentially-related rant, I do wish more resources were spent providing UI kits and easy integration of API's to third-party developers. IIRC Google still doesn't provide the same high-quality UI resources as Apple does, which is partially to blame for an app quality disparity moreso than disparate user bases.