Apple's Crush ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc
Samsung's Simple Response, Uncrush : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eqDLa-nSwg
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I used to love Apple products. There was a certain level of quality and reliability I expected and was never disappointed. In recent years, that has fallen by the wayside while prices continue to skyrocket.
Now I just use their shit because Google and Microsoft aren't exactly better.
This Apple ad shows just how far they've fallen. They used to aim primarily at creative professionals; now it's 'oh wowee, look how thin!'
Can't wait for the class-action when people's overpriced slabs of glass and aluminium snap when tapped too hard.
This was always the case. Apple was never some sort of magical environment where everything worked and nothing ever broke. The magic was just convincing their users that, even when things broke, somehow it was still just working all the time.
I've administered enough Apple environments to know that.
Gotta (largely) disagree with this. Since Macs started running a UNIX operating system -- OS X (yes, it is officially a UNIX) -- Macs have been superior to Windows for maintaining and running. Malware, viruses, trojans, almost nonexistent. Hardware-wise, at my company, our Macs tend to last roughly twice as long as our Windows computers. Today, our average Mac is from ~2017-18. We are JUST starting to upgrade to "M" chip Macs. Our road warriors basically never have Macbook Airs / ipads die unless they are dropped or something like that. We've used Dell laptops, Surfaces, etc., and while some of them are very nice, they're not as long lived. (I admit I enjoy the Surface.)
About 1/4 of our remote employees are on Windows PCs of some kind and the rest are on Macs. I spend far, far more time remoting in to the PCs to help with various issues than I do to the Macs.
Magic, no? Expensive, yes, quite. Long lasting? Also yes.
This is such a classically bad argument. Are black hats going to target the 90% or the 10% Are they going to target corporate offices or Starbucks novelists? There's less malware for TempleOS than OS X, so it must be superior, right?
There was an era where Apple actually had something going for it. Now they're just a "luxury" brand for electronics. You can get equivalents from nearly anyone else for substantially less and if you can't manage on a Unix derivative without the shiny coat of paint, just do the Hackintosh thing.
No, it is a technical argument. Technically, the kernel design, UNIX and NextStep userland, and in more recent years, hardware design, has made malware, trojans, and viruses much harder to implement. There have been a vanishingly small number of even tech demonstrations ever released.
Heck OS9 have more viruses than OSX/macOS has had.
If I were a blackhat hacker, I would want to target the wealthy users. Macs are about 1/3 of all desktop/laptop computers in the US. iPhones even higher.
You can’t just hand wave this away.
(And I have done the Hackintosh thing and the OCLP thing and the boot Linux thing over the years)
Love him or hate him, and I've never been an Apple fan, Jobs was a wizard at creating new markets. The IPod and IPhone were revolutionary, partially because of product design and partially because of Turtleneck's ability to wow millions of people. Once Jobs died, Apple became just another giant corporation. The magic is gone.
It's notable that Apple ousted Jobs once, only to beg him to come back after the company shit the bed.
Now he's dead, and there's no one to save Apple.
You'd think a gay man could produce magic along with all the glitter and rainbows....
If only all gays were so understated. 🤣
Unfortunately. Steve Jobs ruined the internet. People who don't know how to set up their own modem should never have been invited in.
I disagree, at least for Microsoft. As long as they aren't forcing their users into a walled garden so they can take a 30% cut while raising the price on the customer to pay for it, they will always be better than Apple.
I don't know if it was when wozniak left or when Jobs died, but there was a definite shift in the company. They went from geeks who wanted to make the best product possible to pure hipster bait, and their products have suffered ever since...
Neither (Wozniak leaving or Jobs dying, though I do think they took a hit without Jobs).
The beginning of the loss of what made Apple special was the iPhone. It's by far their most successful product ever and it is by far the product that has given them the most marketshare and growth, ever. It's also diluted the original focus of the company.
Tim Cook is a typical MBA. He's been a great administrator and has grown the value of Apple tremendously. He's also led it away from some of the things that make it special.
Like I said; hipster bait.
It used to be that Apple products were the cream of the crop, high priced, but you were getting the best computer for graphic design, and a ton of other useful tasks, especially since everybody else finally caught up with the Amiga 4000, an ancient computer that was used in cgi for movies and tv for over a decade, lmao.
Then the Fire Nation came, and everything changed...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
jokes aside, with the iphone, they became glorified status symbols whose price was more a way for people with more money than good sense to show off how successful they were, rather than simply a top of the line product that served the needs of multiple industries.
Gay Jack Welch
I knew this was the case when the iphony X was released at $1000+ and people still drank it up. The Kool Aid has never been stronger.