Haha I’ll hold my breath.
Once upon a time, starting 44 years ago, I was an Apple fanboy. I grew up with a ][+ what still works and is sitting in my garage. Taught myself to code on that old box. Back then there would be school yard fights over which was better: Apple or IBM.
Years later I worked for Apple. Met Steve (not nearly as bad as anyone ever said - in fact quite a nice guy), and helped code the first rev of Mac OS X. Exciting times.
Then Steve died, and Jony left, and it was like the light went out of the company. Apple became pretty soulless. Leadership became … well … piss poor as far as innovation goes. And it was about this time I decided to jump ship.
I built my own PC. Configured it exactly as I wanted with three 32” monitors. And I have never looked back.
Apple makes exactly nothing in which I’m interested. I really doubt this product, or any product during the reign of their current “leadership” will change that.
Consider this my lighthearted fuck you. System 7.5 was the last good Apple OS. Really though, once you look through all of the Apple greed, pretentiousness, and fuckery OSX has some damn good aspects.
I beg to differ. In the second era of Mac OS, Mac OS 7.6.1 reigns supreme. 7.5 had bugs - lots of bugs. They fixed some with 7.5.1, but it wasn't until 7.6.1 that things truly stabilized on an enterprise scale.
In the first era of Mac OS (before it was dubbed "Mac OS"), 4.2 was the best system. 6.0.4 was okay, but 4.2 (while it did have limited capabilities compared to the systems which came later) was far more rock solid.
OSX took a while to get good, and there have been ups and downs. I don't follow it anymore but I think Snow Leopard was pretty good.
Recently Microsoft thoughtfully "upgraded" me to Windows 11. I took a look around and promptly said "Fuck that!" and reverted back to Windows 10. It's no Windows 95, but it seems decent enough if you know how to get around all the twisted pajeet coding.
I stand corrected.
There are some cool things on iPhone I wish I had access to on Android (mainly related to face tracking for 3d animation) but my issue is and always has been how restrictive and shitty the user experience is for any type of power user. I frequently need to install development tools of every stripe and on anything Apple that's essentially just a dead end. OSX has some stuff but even there, if you want to develop FOR it, you have to shell out money for their IDE, when on every other OS the best IDEs are 100% free.
And then now in 2023 it's even worse because Apple censors shit in other people's programs or refuses to allow them on the app store, so to get uncensored versions of shit you simply can't even use an Apple device (e.g., Telegram), or you're limited to using a browser version, which they could censor at any time.
I also do some game hacking for fun sometimes (usually for modding purposes in co-op multiplayer games, rather than actually cheating) and in the modern landscape that usually means running hacked OS level drivers and coding inside of them, which as far as I know doesn't even exist on MacOS. Same with disassembling binaries, I have no idea how Apple's assembly works, and it took me a long time to learn what little I know of x86 assembly.
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