Comment by boxed
10 hours ago
Or that it's a unix with taste that can render fonts correctly and has UI APIs that aren't absolute trash.
I'm pretty sure Apple doesn't pay any "influencers", but maybe they're doing the Mormon church thing and buying ads?
> can render fonts correctly
macOS font rendering has been worst in class since they removed subpixel-antialiasing. It's now a blurry mess on regular displays.
Good thing MacBooks don't ship with regular displays then.
FWIW, I've had no trouble with Mac font rendering on bog standard 1440p and 4K external displays
Fonts rendered correctly is kind of useless on a glary screen.
> pretty sure Apple doesn't pay any "influencers"
It's true they probably don't need to, since they have a bunch of fanatics who buy whatever Apple releases just because it's Apple