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The problem is, now is the only time when something actually can be done. When this overs, we're going back to "everything's fine" until some crisis happens again...

Just cut the price to match SD plan and everything is OK.

Will Netflix be understanding and forgiving if pandemic would cut our income, so we wouldn't be capable of paying for subscription and started pirating their originals?

You can't develop and deploy IOS or hybrid apps on any other system, and OSX is a pain to run on a VM...

They figured it out with GDPR, so I don't think there will be a problem with that.

Have you read what types of malware is on the list? "Download and install this app from sketchy place" kind of thing...

I'm from Poland, a country which has one of the highest percentages of adblocker users. Most pages adapted to it by either doing nasty tricks to bypass them, or just slapping an unclosable popup telling you to disable your adblocker...

Seems like an awful lot of configuration to get it half working like you want.

Now look at it other way around. How much time would you have to spend to configure OSX to behave like Ubuntu?

As someone who uses both, I'd kill for middle click paste...

You just need to uncheck one setting, which you are directed to when you first try to install an apk...

Now tell me, how can I get an alternative app store, or an internet browser, that doesn't use crappy Webkit on iOS...

Not being able to sell your application, because another company doesn't like it, is giving up an essential liberty.

Unless an app essential to their business gets taken down from an app store, with no way around that.

And this is where whole "ecosystem" comes in. If you switch, you will either have to replace all of your devices, or have inconveniences while using them together.

bloated has 100000 features when people use 3 most of the time

And here's your MP3 player, iTunes...

Compared to most Android Wear devices Apple Watch is way closer to a phone than a watch...

In a way that it has to be explicitly allowed to do so by the user.

I don't need an online store app to eat up my phone's battery, and disabling background by default seems to be only option here.

I'm pretty sure, that Syrians didn't elect US government...

Even if you are over 500€, there is no 'just buy a Mac' attitude.

Maybe it's because a computer is a significant expense, so people value price/performance more,

or maybe because schools have Windows PCs and nobody is used to OSX from young age.

Windows still has almost 90% market share, so it's not going to be killed anytime soon.

For gaming, it's pretty much only choice, Macs have no hardware to handle them, and for Linux, I've tried switch many times, and it always been a hassle.

I've ended up with Ubuntu for work and Windows for everything else.

It actually has a switch to turn nagging about app off. It's 'ask to open in app' in menu. No banners or popups about the app since I've flipped it.

iPhone 4 had it quite easy, take out two pentalobe (annoying, but screwdrivers are available) screws at bottom and you have access to battery.

On the other side, every other phone on the market at the time had a battery cover and toolless replacement was possible.

It got a bit harder with iPhone 5 though, since screws now secure front panel, not back to the chassis.

Compare iPhone 6 to Xiaomi mi A1 or HTC U11 life.

Both new are priced in the range of used 6.

Both run latest Android and will have updates for 3-4 years, since they both have non vendor modified Android.

Which means that your old iPhone goes to someone else rather than the landfill…

Your Android phone will too, you will just be paid less for it.

Technically superior in what way?

Bigger screen with better resolution,

better camera,

faster UI,

NFC,

wireless charging,

USB-C with fastcharge,

longer battery life,

expandable storage,

and most important, possibility to install a decent web browser instead of having to rely on app for every website you visit :)

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. You mention that adults are buying their children new hardware, but you're also talking about 6-7 year old gaming PCs? Not quite sure what you mean.

You buy a new PC, what happens to old one? It doesn't magically disappear.

Yeah, but these are gaming PCs. They're terribly impractical for casual use. They're bulky and hot and noisy, with terrible battery life and a large power consumption.

I'm talking about desktops, not laptops. They're not noisy and hot unless you run them at 100%, which you don't do when not gaming. You could also remove GPU and save some power, but I rarely see people doing this.

You know, I've never seen anyone still using a PC from 2010. Macs from 2010 aren't that uncommon though; I know at least a handful of people who use the non-Retina MacBook Pros from like 2009 every day

This is why i stated 'where I live'. Macs aren't common here (there's a trend for last 3-4 years for MacBooks, but still low market share), and in 2010 they were almost nonexistent. This is why there aren't much of old ones around.

Everyone had a PC though, and it can be seen that they can handle new versions of Windows as well if not better than macs can handle new OSX.

Even the MacBook from today is faster, and MacBook Pro, while not "twice as fast", is around 1 1/2 times faster or so.

Yes, but did you see people owning Airs complain about slugishness? For same reason they don't on 2x faster, 7 year old machine.

With Android it's hit-or-miss.

With Android you have choice. You pay premium for a pixel and updates, or go cheap and don't get those. There's also Android One initiative, which gives phones updates straight from google. Yes, harder for uneducated guesses, but you can still stay good knowing only that Google = longer life.

With iOS there's only one choice.

And also 20 to 30% slowdown when updated to iOS 11.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/ios-11-on-the-iphone...

Same thing happened to iPhone 4 a while ago, it was literally killed by iOS 7.

I'd rather not update in this case.

Also, google is sending security patches for older versions of Android. Latest one for S5 is from beginning of 2018.

Why would a "less tech savvy" person have a gaming PC?

Kids. Adults buy kids new hardware to play latest games, and older stuff that is replaced is good enough for them.

That's not what a gaming PC is for…

Repurposing old hardware for new uses is what being eco friendly is about.

i7-960 is the processor from the Mac Pro.

No, it's a processor you would go and buy off shelf (hard to imagine, I know) and use in a decent gaming PC in that time, that happens to also be in a mac pro.

The "newest Macbook Air" hasn't been substantially updated in around three to four years.

It's for June 2017 model, latest that was on Wikipedia. Is there a newer one which is twice as fast?

The processor you've selected is from an ultraportable laptop

I wanted to state that for quite some time people don't actually need better hardware for web browsing or watching movies. This is a response to claim that 2010 PC users with Windows 10 being so rare, and that Mac mini from 2012 still having updates making it something special.

Nexus 6P is the high-end flagship phone literally backed by Google. No other Android phone is going to get updates as long as it does.

iPhone is the high-end flagship phone literally backed by Apple. No other iOS phone is going to exist...

Does iPhone 5? They're 5 months apart in release dates.

My 2014 RMBP is still the best laptop I have ever owned

And my desktop PC is better. What's the point of this?

You can't upgrade anything on a new MBP, and every computer i had so far had at least a RAM upgrade in it's life. With Macbook, you just have to throw it away, which isn't too eco friendly, is it?

I don't care about the supposed technological superiority of a cellphone.

Why don't you buy a Nokia 8100 then? It just works :)

Where I live it's pretty common to have a 6-7 year old gaming PC with SSD, and RAM upgrade among less tech savvy people.

They are fast enough to do web browsing and media consumption.

i5-5350u from newest Macbook Air is actually way slower than 9 year old i7-960, and it's sufficient for most people.

Four year old Nexus 6P has latest system version. Android One phones will have it too.

Time to live was a big difference in favor of Apple few years ago, but it's getting way better for Android phones now.

To be honest, Android got good around 2013-14, before that it wasn't a best experience.

If you get a galaxy S4 now, it's not the fastest, but perfectly usable phone.

Wasn't Apple the one who created the trend for non user replaceable batteries?

Or non upgradeable pcs?

Or making you dispose your perfectly good screen, when your iMac gets old?

Resale value is high due too really good marketing and brand recognition combined with high prices.

People will often buy a 3 year old iPhone instead of technically superior new Android phone for some price, just to have this brand.

You use your iPad as it was intended to. Multimedia consumption, light internet browsing, some simpler office suite work.

When it comes to development, what's the use case besides a terminal client?

You can't develop anything native, because of iOS.

You cannot do webdev, cause only browser you can have is safari.

Cannot do embedded stuff due to lack of ports.