Is apple done?

ØSkald
How can one make a show without an oppinnion? Every artistik gesture is a statement.

That people say their opinnion on Youtube does not make them right, but it shoemws that they have guts to say it. You dont need to agree with them. I seldom do. But listening to others opinions does not weaken mine. It only gives me more info to base mine on.

Hugh Mann
I resisted apple (not their phones or other items.  Just their computers) for decades.  I always thought "why pay so much more for underpowered hardware?  I can do the same on windows".  I always thought "who cares about the OS.  Its the programs".  
 
Well, I finally had enough of Windows,  their ridiculous forced updates..all the bs that goes along with it.  
 
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 15 2018.  I gotta say, I absolutely love it.  After decades of wrestling with Windows, it feels great to just get on with the artistic side.  Its really been amazing.   Sure,  I learned to wrestle with Windows and I got it to do what I wanted.  But at the cost of a lot of time and and frustration. OSX is fantastic.  Head and shoulders above Windows.  It makes a difference.  For example,  core audio is built into the OS.  Its specifically designed for audio and the arts.  I can set my sound card to 16 samples for .04ms of latency.  And I get no crackles! Thats amazing.   Best I could do with windows was 48 samples.  Not bad,  but that was after a lot of digging in and turning off services and messing with the BIOS,  etc..,.  
 
But its more than that.  Its the way its all so well thought out.  Its elegant.  And beautiful.  Security is built in to the OS.  Everything about is well thought out.  These are things I didn't think I cared about.  But after experiencing how superiors OSX is,  How awesome Logic is... I could never go back to Windows. I've finally seen the light. I now understand why pro's choose Mac.   

Rain

ØSkald
How can one make a show without an oppinnion? Every artistik gesture is a statement.

That people say their opinnion on Youtube does not make them right, but it shoemws that they have guts to say it. You dont need to agree with them. I seldom do. But listening to others opinions does not weaken mine. It only gives me more info to base mine on.

 
What I mean is that this kind of review usually tells you more about the reviewer than the product they are allegedly reviewing. 

Underneath it all, there is usually very little substance. It's all bling and posturing.People wanting their 15 minutes of fame.
 
As for having the guts to say what they "think"...
 
I don't know what to tell you. Facebook. Yelp. The comment sections on every web site. Bloggers. Podcasts... Seems everyone is a journalist, a critic, a reviewer, an engineer, a physician, an astro physician, a biologist, a linguist, a psychologist, a climate specialist, and so on... Opinions are everywhere.
 
Although most of them can hardly spell their own name and many of them believe the earth is flat and Australia is made up.
 
Guts are not the problem. Brains are an entirely different story.
 
May also be worth mentioning that there's a lot of insecure people out there who seem to want Apple to fail - as if that somehow validated their choice of platform, least they feel threatened. There is such a thing as confirmation bias... 
 
I'm guessing this is why hardly a month goes by on most forums dedicated to PC software without someone posting some anti-Apple content. People have been posting about the demise of Apple for as long as I've been making music on a computer almost two decades ago.... Conjectures and nothing more.
 

Hugh Mann

ØSkald

But why not a Hackintosh instead?

 
I seriously looked into it.  But first off, you need a copy of OSX.  I don't have one,  and Apple doesn't sell it without the hardware.  I don't know how others got theirs, but I wanted a serious music machine for professional work.  I'm not trusting illegal or pirated software for professional work. Especially the OS.
 
Also,  it seemed  complicated. I looked at tony mac and other sites.  You need specific hardware and hex this and that...I'm capable of doing it...but the time and energy...it ends up costing a lot more than just buying a mac.
 
Finally what convinced me was the release of the new 2018 MacBook pros 15 a couple of weeks ago.  The hardware is plenty powerful.  The  display is gorgeous. The machine itself is top quality.  The integration with the os and hardware is great.  I even love the touchbar and the keyboard.  And the supposedly 'dongle gate' is not even a real issue.  I bought these little USB A to USB c adaptors that I plug to the end of my existing USB A cables.  They where $10 a pair.  No big deal.   

tlw
Apple is so “done” that it’s expected to soon become the first company valued at $1,000,000,000,000.

ØSkald
So, you don’t want people to say their opinion?

ØSkald
Does their opinion hurt your opinion in some way?

ØSkald
And what is the criteria to be able to tell one’s opinion?

ØSkald
Do you have to be healthy in any way?

ØSkald
Like if you have a disability your disqualified to tell yours because you can’t spell or something?

ØSkald
And who are you to tell who’s the one with the biggest brain?

ØSkald
Does a chess match do the trick?

ØSkald
And lastly.
Why love a big company that don’t love you back?
It’s the same with Apple, Microsoft, Google and the rest.

kennywtelejazz
 
 What difference does it make ?
 
Both Apple and Microsoft are sucka$$  companies that only care about themselves and their bottom line .
 
Giving me what I really want or need in a quality computer (that I can afford ) does not seem high on either companies agenda
 
Kenny
 
 

kennywtelejazz
Anyway , I have no idea how welcome this post is or how long it is gonna last  ..who know I might decide to let it go poof 
in the mean time I gotten to sit here and put my thoughts out there