The obnoxiousness of the anti-touch Apple crowd in this thread ("
I have no creativity and my small mind can't picture any creative need for touch whatsoever and I refuse to accept that others need it so it sucks and Apple are Gods, hail Apple!") is doing a
great job of driving me even closer to Windows. This "Big Apple" worship is very creepy and cult-like.
Only with
Apple do we ever see these battered wives praising having
less features. So maybe Apple
and the community are
both the problem. Apple are just another computer manufacturer, with a neat OS. But staying behind the times is going to hurt them.
Try to think about this
rationally for moment:
- They have
no touchscreen
option for those who
need it despite
every other manufacturer having touch desktops enjoyed by creatives who
need it!?
- And they have a dangerously backwards userbase who
praises losing modern features and says that "no sane person uses a touchscreen desktop". A comment which implies that
they think
they're the
only sane ones and that Apple validating their regressive biases is somehow a
good thing.
- And Apple finally upgraded their MacBook "Pro" and
took away all the ports!??
- And they lingered for
half a decade without a Mac Pro upgrade?
- And now they want us to believe it will take a few more years to design a new Mac Pro that won't suck? So... what the hell have they been doing in the past 4 years since 2013's Mac Pro? It should be
trivial to use all of their money to keep the desktops up-to-date.
All of that money they have is being squandered by blind idiots at the top who apparently can't multitask the desktop and iOS development at the same time and can't innovate anymore.
And Steve, the only man with creativity and vision - is gone.
The
only reason Apple hasn't got a touch computer is because of their shortsighted comments years ago (and the fact that their OS has stayed behind the times as a result of that stubborn comment). They've got too much narcissistic pride to walk back those misguided comments against touch. They'd rather continue to alienate the growing segment that
needs touchscreens. A segment that will soon overtake the
whole computer market (give that 15 years at most). It's unfathomably shortsighted to believe desktop computers will stay the same as they've been for the past 60 years, while the
whole world and
all other devices around Apple moves on to touch.
There is
nothing more natural than touch, voice and visual input. A mouse and keyboard are a clunky and
completely unnatural abstraction which we've simply gotten used to, but which is now finally getting killed more and more, year after year. But Apple's utter fools at the top are instead doubling down on their short-sightedness and staying with ancient, nearly 60 years old, dying input methods, and
refusing to even offer touch as an
option whatsoever. Their obtuse stupidity, narcissism and short-sightedness is astounding, and the willingness of Apple sycophants to defend the lack of features and the lack of even the
option of having that feature for those who
do need it is equally
astounding and perplexing. Stockholm Syndrome?
My next machine upgrade (due in 1-2 years) will be either a hackintosh with a touchscreen, or a Windows PC with a touchscreen. There's no reason to keep suffering inferior hardware and inferior input methods when Windows is making huge strides as an OS and is getting closer and closer to becoming equal with macOS in quality. Windows has shown that they're willing to redesign and innovate, and I look forward to switching away from the poisonous Apple farm around Windows 11 or Windows 12, so that I can finally enjoy modern hardware and features at great value.
2017: Apple are no longer hungry. Just foolish. However, the lingering reality distortion field is still alive among
some of the userbase, but more and more of us are snapping out of it. I'm
so close to done with Apple.
