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there is not a single reason to use Windows over macOS--maybe if you enjoy suffering.

Or I prefer stability. Believe it or not, I found macOS to be very crash prone. Opening many tabs in a web browser? Crashed macOS. Transmission not uploading, so hit use random port to upload, Airport no longer works, even after reset. Run and tab between multiple apps at the same time, crash crash crash. macOS might be good for you, but it really isn't that great for everyone and really has issues.

Also, my time is worth more than minimum wage. When something isn't working, I need to get it fixed and now. Not make an appointment with the nearest Apple store so I can wait until the appointment and then waste my time going to the store (and the nearest Apple store is 2 hours away). My machine is a work device, not a reason to have to come in to their store for yet another sales pitch of why I should buy a new laptop instead of fixing it.

Oh, and for those prices, you'd think they would support the hardware for more than 5-7 years. People are complaining about Win10 "only" being supported for 10 years, that's nothing on Apple.

Or I'm a developer and shouldn't have to deal with Apple's BS. Or their constant breaking of software so they can "release a new version of macOS".

And that trackpad... Holy F, I've never come so close to punching a computer than that trackpad. When I two finger tap to bring up a menu, I expect it to bring up a menu where I tap, not drop a cm down and then bring up a menu that doesn't match what I needed.

Logic Pro isn't the industry standard, it's Pro Tools, and Final Cut Pro isn't either, it's Adobe Premiere Pro.

Fire in the disco, fire in the taco bell

It's a bad headline, but I see where you were coming from.

The article does mention:

It follows news that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has already contributed $1 million to the fund. And Amazon has also promised a $1 million infusion into Trump's inauguration coffers.

So it was name dropping, but it's being done as a company, not the individual. Sam Altman is still mentioned as a single and not as a company again though.

Facebook and Google do not sell your profile, they sell access to you as a customer, same as Apple does. They aren't going to sell the keys to their kingdom. And Apple has ads in quite a few places. Search Ads. Apple News and Stocks also shows ads.

What you have described are data brokers, which is something different and has nothing to do with selling you ads.

I didn't follow these donation news too closely, but from the headlines it always sounded like they do it personally!?

Really? I've never seen a single article that said that. Even this one points out that

Amazon, Meta, Uber, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Coinbase, Toyota, Ford, GM, AT&T, Black & Decker, and Charter Communications are also making donations to Trump's inauguration fund.

None of these say Zuckerberg, or Bezos, etc.... (except for Sam Altman). Seems that it's companies that are the norm.

DNA of Apple is building and selling hardware, it’s only logical that they can be a privacy advocate

You'd think so, but when you look at their privacy policies and see how much tracking they do to sell you ads, you realize they aren't any different and never have been.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertising/

What I'm curious about is, according to the article, Tim Apple is donating from this own money and won't be donating Apple's money. Why make it a personal donation and not a corporate one?

While others are donating as companies (don't agree with this either but different subject), none are doing it as a personal donation. As the face of Apple, he won't get far claiming that it doesn't reflect Apple as a company, so why not just m make it corporate? Unless it's for tax reasons?

Nymphetamine Fix would most likely be considered one of the top songs (which is a shortened version of the original...) Wouldn't be a bad starting point.

Never said the Chinese government owned it.

I know a few people that are hard Apple users and they've told me that it really depends on the Apple store. Some are good, and some just are the worst and won't repair if they can upsell. Maybe your shop was good, but you might be surprised to find that it isn't always like that everywhere else.

You know, if you don't live near an Apple store, then your Apple stuff is most likely going to be repaired by a 3rd party company on Apple's behalf. And I don't mean "there are no Apple stores in the country" places, but places that have Apple stores but you aren't close enough to drive (like multiple hours away).

Given tiktok isnt a Chinese company by any possible definition that doesn't label all Asians as Chinese, no not really.

That is the strangest way of saying "Yes they are Chinese" I've ever seen.