If you like workarounds, pick apple. It just works.
Is a workaround still a workaround if it ends up being a better experience than the default app experience?
That was in part, my experience with the iPad. Pretty limited at the start, I learnt to either deal with, or get around those limitations. In time, those workarounds would become the default, while the "default" became the more cumbersome workaround in comparison.
For example, the lack of external drive support for the iPad led me to subscribe to Dropbox and store all my files online. This would lead me to rethink the way I work, and eschew physical storage in favour of cloud storage. Which I find more convenient these days, but I might never have made the initial leap had the limitations of iOS not given me the kick I needed to rethink the way I did things.
Copied was also an app that I experimented with to get around the clunkiness of the copy and paste mechanic on iOS, and in the right situation, it ended up being more convenient and efficient than even copying and pasting on a PC.
MS Office was not available on the iPad for the longest time, and I have since learnt to not care about that drawback. While I do have office currently installed on my iPad, it's no longer the indispensable app many made it out to be, and in the 4 years that it was unavailable, I have had the opportunity to try out numerous alternatives.
I am also a fan of third party apps, in part because it appears that these small developers do care more about the end user experience than the larger companies currently engaged in a pissing match with Apple. As I mentioned earlier, spotify not being available on the vision pro could well end up biting Spotify in the rear if users decide to switch to Apple Music. At the end of the day, it's just another distraction from their financial woes (looking at 2026 when their 1 billion dollar debt becomes due). 😈
Spotify is offering $1.3 billion in exchangeable notes it can pay off with cash or stock, while building its war chest for acquisitions or other purposes.
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I preferred Tweetbot to Twitter and Apollo to Reddit back when those apps were still available. Better UI, smoother performance, zero ads. I also recommend Play as an alternative Youtube player, and infuse as a media player.
Marcos Tanaka’s Play has become the way I watch YouTube, which isn’t something I expected would happen as much as I’ve enjoyed the app since its launch early last year. The app, available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, started as a way to save YouTube links to watch later. That made Play
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I guess what I am trying to say is that with any new computing paradigm, there is the opportunity to rethink the way things are done and question if the old ways or the original apps that seem like household names are in fact all that they are really cracked up to be. Yes, I watch a lot of YouTube, but I don't necessarily need the default app for that.
A lot of computing habits and practices I take for granted today, I picked up because of the limitations inherent in the iPad. Habits that would never had manifested had I continued to be happy with the old ways because "that's how things have always bene done".
This is what I mean when I say "When one door closes, another opens". If I can't find a way, I will make one. And in the future, may that solution become the new reality. 😊
