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Not seen: the 100,000 USD bill for the Apple Car
Alt text: A cartoon photo of a "Windows" car that is in need of maintenance and care, and an "Apple" car that just has an on/off switch
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EDIT: That's Inspector Gadget's "Gadget-Mobile" for those not yet middle aged.
I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management
I'm a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They've done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it's nuts. I've tried the same on Linux, and there's just nothing out there that can match it.
Allegedly, Pipewire is a lot better at that now, you should give it another try!
I'll try it again when I build my new desktop this week!
And also, charging a bougie price for it.
In my uneducated opinion it's two prongs:
Average person doesn't want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.
Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.
It's a wildly successful strategy.
I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.
There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.
Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files
Windows is placing touchscreens with half the functions over the physical buttons, while Apple has vibrating touchscreens that do most things, but the SuperButtons that do everything are only available for Windows.
And the gas tank is on the bottom of the Apple car.
The apple car doesn't have a reverse gear. But the fan boys are like "It doesn't need a reverse, that's the point, Apple is all about forward thinking".
Tell me that while parallel parking
You don't need to reverse to park between two vehicles, you simply go forward on the right angle, climb the curb and turn.
But you do need it to get out.
However, you also don't need it to get out as you just wait like an upstanding citizen for the person in front you to leave.
You're parking it wrong.
That's what You get for using a non apple authorised parking space. Your car gets bricked.
Of course you need to flip your car over to recharge it. What's wrong with that?