Also: y’all should use Macs.
If you’re into graphic design or video editing, sure. I am not.
This is a misconception that a lot of people have about Macs: they’re only for artsy-fartsy people. That’s just not true. They’re for everybody, from the lest competent computer user to a visual artist to a web programmer. That last one, I think, is a particularly important point, as there was a bit of an exodus from Windows and other platforms to the Mac for programmers in the last decade.
Apple products are, by and large, overpriced
Not in comparison to similarly speced products.
and heavily restrictive.
At lest in the case of the Mac, a Mac is hardly more restrictive than a PC.
Sure, you can install Bootcamp on a Mac and run Windows, but isn’t that defeating the purpose?
If you want nice-looking hardware and a useable trackpad, perhaps not.
The advantage of a PC is if I want to fix or upgrade a part, I can open my box and upgrade it. Like adult Legos. If a part on a Mac breaks, it’s time to buy a new Mac.
True, but the premise is that a Mac should last long enough to where that isn’t a problem, in part, because of the sealed-in-ness of them.
Also, I don’t want adult Lego bricks or toys. They already sell those.
Also, I can not stand iOS. My dad gave me an old iPad when he upgraded to a newer model once upon a time, and I almost immediately was compelled to jailbreak it. Seriously—you can’t even do something as simple as change the app icon titles on the home screen, or give the folders actually interesting looking icons. Among other things. It’s beyond frustrating to have to cope with vanilla iOS.
“Interesting looking” does not necessarily mean “good looking.” You could be as creative as you want and create something that just looks terrible. I’d find it frustrating to cope with that, along with the myriad of other not specifically visual design problems that both Android and Windows have.
Also, when was this iPad gifted to you?
The primary advantage Apple has is the ability to dumb down their interface and simplify settings so a monkey can probably use it.
Just to note before I make this point: I have done what I will be accusing you of, so I am one hundred percent the pot calling the kettle black. But I’m still uncomfortable with it, nonetheless. Trying to make things so that a wide cross-section of people can use a technology without reading a four-hundred page manual is not dumbing things down so that a monkey could use it. In fact, that’s pretty insulting to the people who don’t want to or can’t read that four-hundred page manual.
Also, there are many power user features in Apple’s platforms that have a lot of ins and outs to them, so your point is partially incorrect.
But I want more flexibility in my software, so no thank you.
It is also among these reasons that Apple TV is only a tiny fraction of the streaming box market, since they waited until the recent Apple TV 4 before you could install apps from the Store that didn’t come stock on the device when you bought it. So if my dad wants his ATV2 to access his media server, he has to install certificates on the ATV and run a script on the server that lets the server hijack the Trailers app. It’s ridiculous.
That was ridiculous.