Actually the other news article about Pokemon reminds me. There is one killer feature that could immediately swing me back to the iPhone, and that's if the new one (along with old rumours about it being waterproof) has a touchscreen that can differentiate between a finger and drops of rain.
Right now, phones don't work in the rain. Which is very bad news for AR gaming in England. As soon as you get water on a capacitive touchscreen, touches register all over the place and you can forget about typing or flinging a pokeball (or drawing a glyph, if you were into AR gaming before the Pokemans). Also good luck if you trigger screen lock - TouchID doesn't work if it's even slightly damp.
A great thing to do would be to ride on back of Pokemon's success and make a screen that continues to work in the rain so that people can enjoy the AR gaming craze even here where you're more likely to see a blue moon than a blue sky.
You're not alone. If the Macbook Pro is a disappointment -- I suspect it will be -- Apple's ecosystem is toast. I've already ditched all my other Apple devices (almost -- waiting on Nexus) and I'm this close to kissing the MBP goodbye as well.
As much as I hate Microsoft, Windows 10 is rock solid and you have inifinite options for hardware configuration. Apple just isn't compelling anymore. Period.
Indeed, Windows 10 is not bad at all, at least if you're not paranoid about it "spying". It's boring, but it works.
It's been a long time since I've hated Microsoft - only really in my nerd rage days when they were shoving IE down everyone's throats. If anything Apple are more worthy of hate with the consumer hostile attitude they can sometimes display. For example you pay a premium which is justified by things like "better service" and "better quality", and then get told by some defensive Genius that you must have abused it when you come to them with one of their frayed PSU cords (pretty much everyone seems to get this issue, as they appear to make their outer sheathing out of white chocolate - in consumer rights terms it's not reasonable wear and tear and not fit for purpose) and told in no uncertain terms to go away and buy a new one.
However Windows is far from perfect. For one, "Modern" apps are usually a shadow of their "classic" selves, bringing
dumbed-downsimplified tablet rewrites of apps to a desktop where it was previously working just fine and had more features. Apple are also guilty of this (see the Photos app), though with MS at least you still have the classic version as an option. Tying into this, a major achilles heel Windows has is high DPI screens when using classic applications - I still want to be looking at high DPI for a laptop that's going to see me through the next 5+ years, it'd be senseless not to, and unfortunately on Windows that means a lot of applications where developers are too lazy to update them or say "well send me a high DPI screen to test it with then lol" so you're looking at tiny UI elements and fuzzy fonts.
Overall I still would rather be using macOS, but with lagging hardware and constant uncertainty whether they're going to one day say "Macs are only an extremely small percentage of our revenue so we're discontinuing them as of now" (already they seem to be just plain ignoring them, which is what they did with the iPod Classic and other things they were no longer bothered about) it's getting harder and harder to justify sticking with them, especially here in the UK where (*bites tongue to avoid getting overly political*) we just put the kiss of death on our economy. They want you to have Apple everything, and it's really difficult to afford that and not going to get any easier.
Edit: Yeah I textwalled
