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I think apple has growing to be more reliable and seamless since Tim Cook took over? Although many complaints that apple has less innovation compared to the Steve's era, however the ecosystem that Tim has built between apple's product has been awesome. You can just feel it when you use your mac, apple watch, iphone, airpods. It ONLY happens between apple products though.

Then when I go back to my windows PC and try to use apple music, or even try to transfer videos / photos, I started cursing apple again.

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every time i use osx i fucking start cursing due to how god forsaken slow it is. apple even managed to make it so slow I notice it when helping my coworkers debug their code.

Honestly it is not slow at all for me, what're you using it for? With the exception of gaming, productivity, development, and usage has been great for me.

The build quality of macbook is more sturdy than its competitors like xps, thinkpad, makes me so confident and comfortable to bring it everywhere with me honestly.

do a `rm -rf ./* && git checkout -- .` on a git repo. then do the same thing on a linux box, we're not talking a few milliseconds difference. even our small repos take minute or more for macosx vs linux. this impacts shit like indexing code bases, spinning up the local server etc.

It is only slow if you compare it to some obscure i3 linux thingy. Out of all major desktop players, Mac OS is the most performant.

Hard disagree. Comparing over the past year with my Linux box, windows laptop, and Chromebook macOS is clearly the worst performing.

this is easily and demonstrably false. I use gnome-shell, generally the whipping boy of the linux DMs. the problem isn't with the UI frameworks its with the filesystem.

macosx chokes hard compared to linux and any filesystem access suffers from it.

download a medium sized javascript git repo with node_modules `rm -rf node_modules && git checkout -- .` my shittier linux laptop crushes my macosx laptop.

As someone who owns an iPad, airpods, and a MBP (just to state some non-apple-hater credentials) I was just commenting yesterday to someone that despite owning all 3 of these products I have no way to plug in either of the first two into the third one. I have zero cords that connect them because of decisions that have been made about them. And despite them being on the same "ecosystem" I have never needed any kind of syncing or wireless connection between my iPad and my MBP. I wish Apple would focus more on strengthening the quality of their PRODUCTS rather than their "ecosystem".

Unclear why you would connect these devices via a cord. The AirPods are inherently wireless but do easily switch between the iPad and the MBP. You could connect the iPad to the MBP using either a lightning cable or USB-C depending on which iPad you have but I don’t see what benefit that would give you though you could use that to charge the iPad. The products seem to work fine.

Those devices actually do have the capability of connecting to each other.

I’m doing a distance learning course with my local university and recently availed of the student discount to buy a new iPad Pro, and it came with a pair of AirPods Pro. The iPad Pro came with a USB-C cable, the AirPods a Lightning to USB-C cable, and all macs since 2016 have usb-c/thunderbolt ports.

This was a valid critique a couple of years ago, but not now.

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