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Comment by carlosjobim

16 hours ago

iOS is the best part of an iPhone, just like MacOS is the best part of a Mac. Android phones are cheaper than iPhones, so why not? The Android hardware is quite nice many times.

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viraptor  1 hour ago

That's not been the case for quite a while. Every MacOS release for the last few years results in a choir of "just take a break to fix the bugs". Every new release breaks something about the UX, system crashing bugs are not fixed, old features are restricted and deprecated without replacements (sandbox?), the open sources are published incomplete and impossible to compile, silly user restrictions are in place (want to add a codec or fix the BT stack? lol, not allowed), etc. etc.

MacOS is a practically enforced part of Mac. I'd love to get rid of it because it's not even good.

  • carlosjobim  16 minutes ago

    It's easy for you to get rid off MacOS: Buy a different computer.

    In relation to the rest of your comment: Yes, MacOS and iOS sucks. All the alternatives suck twice as bad. Which is why somebody might want to upgrade their phone to iOS.

dylan604  15 hours ago

Is that really true? When Apple came out with the original 2006 MacPro, it was the best computer to run Windows. When the TrashCan came out, there was a specific issue with Resolve that disappeared when booted into Windows. Apple blamed DaVinci, DaVinci blamed Nvidia, Nvidia blamed Apple.

I'm not suggesting I like Windows or anything nonsensical like that, but I'm just suggesting that their hardware is much better than their software.

  • lloeki  13 hours ago

    The Mac Pro 2013 carried an AMD D300/500/700 GPU, not Nvidia.

    • dylan604  11 hours ago

      doh! I so don't think about AMD that I even forget when they are actually used and forget they even exist. But of course it should have felt weird using Apple/Nvidea in the same breath

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swiftcoder  3 hours ago

> iOS is the best part of an iPhone, just like MacOS is the best part of a Mac.

This is a very hot take. I think you'll find quite a lot of people are unhappy with the state of the two OSes, while still regarding the hardware as best-in-class

mayli  15 hours ago

Not really, the hw from apple is much better than android hw, like A18 compare with SG8 or M1 vs x86. the software itself is mostly worst than android.

  • carlosjobim  14 hours ago

    I can give you that, but the fact remains that there are no cheap iPhones you can buy, but there are cheap Android phones. If it becomes possible to easily upgrade your cheap Android phone to iOS, then that would be very pleasant for a lot of people.