For many years, I really enjoyed photography as a hobby. Aperture was a godsend, it had everything I wanted and then some. Then for some odd reason Apple just ignored it and let it whither on the vine. It seemed once Lightroom came out, Apple gave up, its almost like they were scared of competing against Adobe.
That was honestly when my view towards Apple started to change. I realized that while they didn’t drop projects with the frequency of Google, they do drop them. And when they do it, it is just as abrupt. It’s not always good to be locked into one ecosystem. And Apple definitely tries to lock their users into the “experience”.
I was using it as a hobbyist then too. Now, I am transferring to using my cameras and pcs to provide income, and I still do not use adobe. I refuse to pay insane monthly payments for outdated software. I use luminar, affinity, resolve, videoproc vlogger and photor as my creating software platforms.
I hung on longer, I suppose if there was any time where I put my finger on where my views towards apple changed it was 2016, when they introduced the new MBP, with the touchbar, with only USB-C ports and the butterfly keyboard. Without needing to go into every detail why that laptop was a horrible product, I will say their nonchalant and cavalier was such that I realized it wasn't the same Apple that I came be a fan of. I needed laptop that better fit my needs and it was becoming clear the MBP was not it
I've moved away from photography, I'm not sure why. I think fatherhood was a major factor, where I needed to spend more time with my kids then honing my craft. As for adobe, I bought LR and then subscribed, but realized quickly, it wasn't worth the $$ especially given the fact I was just a hobbyist.
My wife went from breeding and raising horses to becoming a professional photographer. There was a time I would have made her switch from being a lifelong Windows user to a Mac user.
No, I didn't, but since the Studio design looked the same, I traded in my M1 Max Studio for a Mini Pro. I was hoping for a redesign, no chance of the whine, didn't get it.
Agreed, I'm not happy with that sort of stuff and I swear Windows is getting worse.
All thanks to Nadella. The beancounter in chief. All he is worried about is cloud, nothing else. Well...Cloud and business facebook. Consumers are nothing to them now. Which is a shame. When windows 10 mobile was coming online, MS was in a position to really push consumer products, but SN decided to focus 100 percent of everything in microsoft to the cloud and the purchase of business facebook. After that, the consumer teams for mobile, vr/ar, etc were just left to wander around Redmond like something from the walking dead.
You can turn all the crap off for good by never touching a non-Apple product with a stick from afar. Get your hardware, software and services from one source, which you already paid for at the beginning. Every single PC company needs to earn a living. Only because you built your own high-end PC doesn't mean you already paid Microsoft. So they need to bother you with copyright protection and upsell you to some Ultimate Enterprise edition of Windows. And they need to make sure you know, why getting the Home Basic edition would've been a grave mistake. And this nonsense repeats itself with every single component. Of course your motherboard comes in fancy colors and blinking lights and has an epic long name, which highlights all the features you paid for. But beware hidden deep within the installer of a free browser plugin like Adobe Flash is a preselected checkbox, which will install a browser toolbar you didn't ask for and can't get rid of. Every time there was a Flash update I needed to remember to uncheck that damn thing. Using Windows was literally like living in hell and I'm speaking about the good old Windows 7 days. I don't get how people can flip-flop between Mac and PC and not realize the later is absolute ****. Once you know the Mac, you want nothing else ever again.
Apple is going with ads now too, in the app store and Apple News so far...
Apple News does not exist in Germany and I don't get my apps from the App Store.
That doesn't mean what you said is true -- that you wont see ads using Apple devices. You can choose not to see them, just like you can chose not to see them in Windows.
He’s in the “If I don’t think it happens its not true” camp. FYI to others, I am typing this on my 10th gen iPad. I am not anti Apple. I am anti misinformation about them by fan@*&!
I can't choose to not see all the variants and upsells everyone wants to push on me. People complain about Apple's RAM and SSD prices, but literally everything on the PC exists in dozens of variants. Just to pick the right GPU is a giant research project for itself.
You are commenting on different things whenever someone responds to you. We are not talking about configurations, we are talking about ads in OS, which both apple and Microsoft does. You are the one going off on wacky tangents trying to prove apple is superior. Guess what, it’s not.
If this is true for you, why are you here in this thread? Everyone else here is able to research both PCs and Macs just fine. Picking the right GPU is incredibly trivial.
First of all, yes it is superior and that even goes without saying. You don't have a 90% market share on laptops above $1000+ if your product isn't far superior. And that was even the case when all used the same Intel chips, with same heat problems and poor battery life.
