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darksaints ◴[] No.25058726[source]
I really wish Apple sold its hardware independently from its software. They make amazing hardware, and their latest silicon releases practically make me want to buy their computers again.

Their software is shit though, and their walled garden, and insistence on using apple programming languages and IDEs for development, practically ensures that third party software will either not exist or be shit as well. There are only a handful of software shops that make decent software for apple, and they are all fully specialized on apple and therefore do not make software that plays nice with collaborators on other computers, nor used on a cloud server, etc. And if there actually exists better software from third parties that competes with apple software, you can forget about it ever being fully integrated. "Hey Siri, navigate to city hall using Google maps". Yeah right.

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1. planb ◴[] No.25059442[source]
The article you are commenting on is literally about Apple‘s success being rooted in the integration of hard- and software...
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2. darksaints ◴[] No.25060056[source]
If the hardware/software combo is that successful, they shouldn't feel threatened by other software running on their hardware. In the end, they gatekeep everything because it makes them more money now, at the expense of alienating and losing customers that are fully willing to pay their prices for their hardware.