Apple’s whole modern “it’s reliable and just works” cult following exists because they found a fix for situations where the problem was between keyboard and chair.
Both Windows and Linux-based operating systems are plenty reliable if you actually know what you’re doing and you know how things work. Apple started a culture where you don’t need to know how things work because you have no influence over your own devices. Which lets people do the simple tasks without adressing the problem that your userbase will not amass any computing knowledge whatsoever.
And when Apple devices do fail (and trust me, they do), they fail catastrophically without a way to fix the problem yourself (which is by design).
The distinction is larger for computers than it is for mobile devices, but yeah in general Apple devices are for simpletons. But the biggest issue is that Apple’s design philosophy actively creates these simpletons.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Oh cock off. My home network has seven windows machines and three Linux machines. I love iOS because I fuck around with computers all day, I’m not into fucking around with my phone. I want a secure device that lasts a long time, stays extremely fast, and requires no fucking. My five year old iPhone matches all of this perfectly.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Glad you found an incredibly niche exception to my generalisation lol
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Most of my mates who are in tech have iPhones as well. It’s not that niche. It’s a great, fast phone with one-click incremental encrypted image backups so if something fucks up, you’re given a new one and in minutes it’s the exact same phone as the dead one, with zero fucking around.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My brother in Christ, if you have a home network with 7 Windows and 3 Linux machines, you don’t have any mates 😂😂
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As an android owner, I am pretty sure I haven’t fucked any of my phones… Yet.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I don’t use google products or services, so if I had an Android phone I’d have to fuck around with de-Googling and custom ROMs and all that, which I’m not willing to do.