After W2K I didn’t like XP all that much, it felt slower and was too “Chinese-looking” (how it could be said in my language in those years). Now I’m nostalgic over chromecore aesthetic and that look, silver Game Boy, silver PS2, silver SW Phantom Menace interiors. Or matte black as an alternative, too looking very cool. Or at least that “normal” matte white. But in UIs - XP felt a bit too much, tiring for my eyes. Still, XP with default blue theme and jump-to-lightspeed wallpaper is what home and nostalgie are for me.
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ksh@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Apple professional management have run the company down with their many foolish decisions. Feels similar to how Microsoft went down after XP.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
graff@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Never heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don’t mind me asking?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they’d say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in “Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy”. Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It’s rather that back then you’d sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.
moakley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.
graff@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Ah. Thanks, that’s insightful :)
raltoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m pretty sure you can trace the management downturn of American companies back to a change in MBA curriculum.
You can see when they started getting hired after the shift. Where they were taught that as long as your department is doing well and has positive numbers, LITERALLY nothing else matters. The company could be crashing and burning around you, you might even be causing it, but as long as those numbers are going up, you’ll quickly get hired at another company. Because every single iota of their education is about pleasing investors who only care about money now, and not potential money in a few years.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
They go on about long-term investment and then you find out that what they’re actually talking about is things that will start returning a profit in 6 months. Half a year is long-term to them.
If you have a long-term view and want to make quite a lot of money you probably couldn’t do better than shorting Apple stock. They never innovate anymore (every iPhone is literally the same as the previous years), and they spend huge amounts of money on failed projects (Vision Pro), meanwhile they continue not to fix ongoing serious issues (Safari).