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  • How to declutter your Mac using only the tools in macOS

    javacowboyjavacowboy
    Apple still gets a lot of these consumer-level details right.  As much as the OS very often lacks the pro features that Linux has, features like these are welcome for less technical users struggling to recover disk space.

    Having said that, if SSDs didn't take over the world and people were using spinning disks, Apple might not have needed to add this feature,
    watto_cobra

  • Mac shipments continue to slide in Q4 as PC market grows

    javacowboyjavacowboy
    The fact is Windows isn't the train wreck it used to be, and is closing the gap with macOS (in many ways deficient but still good enough for all intents and purposes).

    Linux distros are getting better and more polished.

    On the other hand, macOS has largely stood still (dark mode and some solid but unexciting security features).

    The very best pro PC laptops such as the XPS (2020 keyboard layout notwithstanding) and ThinkPad X1 Carbon are compelling offers.

    Apple may still offer the very best premium experience for its mobile devices, but I sense a lack of will on the part of the company to keep up with the ultra-competitive PC industry.
    cy_starkmanentropysmuthuk_vanalingam

  • How Apple survived the flawgic-filled 2010s, butterflies and all

    javacowboyjavacowboy
    Surely, if any customers were listening to these grave depictions of Apple's butterfly keyboards being terrible to the point of dysfunctional,

    From my point of view, the problem with the 2016-2019 MacBook Pro keyboard is not that it's defective.  Every key press on my keyboard has registered correctly.

    The problem with the keyboard is that it's incredibly unpleasant (and I would argue, inefficient) to type on.   This is especially a problem for people who need to type a lot on a given day:

    1. Programmers
    2. Journalists
    3. Bloggers
    4. Authors
    5. Transcriptionists
    6. Technical writers
    7. etc
    Edit:  Grammar fix
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • New German law mandates opening up Apple Pay NFC tech to rivals

    javacowboyjavacowboy
    urahara said:
    Lol. People who suggest Apple to pull out of Germany because it’s just a rounding error. 
    Are you the same people who suggested Apple pull out of China. And before that out of India. 
    By your business senses - Apple shouldn’t do business with any other countries except US, and maybe Canada and Australia. LoL.

    You sound like a bunch of kids throwing a tantrum. 
    Germans love cash and use it far more than most advanced countries.
    philboogieanantksundaramcat52Carnagespheric

  • New German law mandates opening up Apple Pay NFC tech to rivals

    javacowboyjavacowboy
    I'm not American.

    Still, I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by what I see as an egregious anti-American bias by various governments in the EU nowadays.

    People who claim that Apple somehow has a "monopoly" are using specious logic.  Apple competes with numerous other platforms, each of which contains an ecosystem combining hardware and software.  Apple no more has a monopoly on its own software than Ford has a monopoly on the software running in its cars.

     
    StrangeDayspujones1MacProjahbladenetmageanantksundaramMacQcstompylordjohnwhorfinurahara