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    Owen Williams
    By Owen Williams

    Owen was previously Editor at The Next Web and now runs digital at VanMoof in Amsterdam. He created Charged newsletter, and is probably far too obsessed with keeping up with everything in tech.

    MAR 5, 2017
    Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up
    http://char.gd/microsoft/why-i-left-mac-for-windows/

    If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know. Ask for a suggestion of what computer to get, and I’ll almost certainly either tell you the MacBook Pro, or to wait, because Apple is about to update its hardware finally.

    But recently, I realized I’d gotten tired of Apple’s attitude toward the desktop. The progress in macOS land has basically been dead since Yosemite, two years ago, and Apple’s updates to the platform have been incredibly small. I’m a developer, and it seems to me Apple doesn’t pay any attention to its software or care about the hundreds of thousands of developers that have embraced the Mac as their go-to platform.

    Take a look at Sierra: the only feature of note is Siri, which is half-baked as it is, and the things that did get ported over from iOS are half-done too. On the developer side? Nothing, unless you use XCode — the same story it’s been for years.

    The only reason it’s still even viable as a platform for web developers at all is because of the incredible work the open source community does on the Mac toolchain (take a look at how easy it is to use Node, npm, Yarn or any of the other relatively new tools out there).

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    • #99345

      I don’t know if you know this guy, but it looks like he has  been paid to write that.

      “Then, in October 2016, Microsoft unveiled the next version of Windows: Creators Update out of nowhere. It brings dedicated gaming features, full OS-level VR support, color customization, a people bar for quick chat and a lot more in a free update. I watched the event with my mouth open (it was the first time I’d tuned in to any Microsoft event in years), wondering how Microsoft was suddenly shipping awesome features out of nowhere.”

      This looks like a list of PR stuff. There is nothing new here. Windows has always been better for games and VR and I wouldn’t call color customization or people bar awesome features in an OS. May we talk about how color management is awful on Windows and not even an afterthought in their Metro environment Photo App?

      His point about the lack of hardware progress on the Mac is fine and it is interesting to learn that the Mac team has been folded into the IOS team. However, reading this I feel that the things he don’t like is exactly what a lot of people liked about Windows before, which is things not changing all the time.

      This article reminds me of another I saw a while ago about a Mac “creative type” user trying Windows and finding it so awesome. They were disturbingly similar. Maybe it is genuine and some points are valide, but I find it doesn’t smell that clean. The fact that they seem to find Creator’s Update so great when there’s not that much more in this version than previous version for the Photoshop/Premiere professional user is a bit weird.

       

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      • #99430

        I would agree that this is more than likely PR chaff. It depends on what you do with a mac, I found the graphic design side of things and the efficiency of hardware, security and seamless integration of Yosemite OSX hard to beat and the monitor resolution was fantastic when trying one out a couple of years ago prior to windows 10 malware.

        Needless to say, I stuck with Windows 7 and 8 as I could do so much more and had bought a lot of software over the years that still works in Windows 7 and 8 .

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    • #99506

      Also, may I point out his beef about iMessage not working seamlessly on the Mac Desktop won’t be solved by the new amazing people bar of Windows since it is not iMessage either? Oh, maybe he will be able to integrate with his Window phone and he is trying to convert all his friends to leave the stalling IOS for Windows mobile. I bet he is looking forward to get his hands on the new Window phone, because it will be awesome.

      I can’t believe that MS maybe use such bad not subtle tactics to win customers. I don’t understand how they think they will win the creative types with an amateur app like Paint 3D and marketing. A lot of the creative types I know hate Windows because they don’t understand computers or they don’t like them and they love the fact they just use the Mac and it works and they don’t worry about viruses. I am not pretending they are right to think that Apple has no security issues, but that is their perception. Maybe Windows can win the more technical creative types, but a lot of the ones I know are smart and educated artistic types that just really are not computer people and the last thing they wan’t is have their computer change all the time.

      • #99513

        You’re right; it looks like the writer wants everything to keep changing all the time…

        The progress in macOS land has basically been dead since Yosemite, two years ago, and Apple’s updates to the platform have been incredibly small.

        … such as we are now seeing in Windows-as-a-service, AKA Windows 10.

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    • #99715

      “Meanwhile, Microsoft had licked its wounds inflicted by Windows 8, found a passionate new CEO in Satya Nadella, and started doing something interesting with Windows 10: it actually started listening, and implementing, features people wanted.”

      Another great piece of poetry from this article. Sorry, but I can’t get enough of it. I’m very impressed how not subtle it is. Sounds more like what they wanted to do than what they did. When you need to pay someone to say how great you are and how you listen to what people want, there is something wrong. I don’t know what did people want so much and that they listened to, more telemetry, ads, the forced locked screen, the forced Cortana, the mandatory recording of your searches, the inability for home users to delay feature updates and avoid being unpaid beta testers, an anemic app store? Oh no, I got it, the creative types asked for paint3D for productivity enhancement and they listened to that.

       

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