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2603 points mattsolle | 3 comments | 12 Nov 20 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pgt ◴[12 Nov 20 23:25 UTC] No.25076714[source]▶
A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer.

Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going through the same process, albeit more slowly.

And even though I just bought an MBP16, Apple monitoring every binary I run makes me want to sell it immediately and never buy another iPhone, Watch or Macbook. No one is going to catch Apple on performance and form factor for a long time, but I'm willing to invest in a long-term ecosystem that won't allow things like this...as long as I don't need to debug audio drivers. I am done with that phase of my life.

So if I had to choose an alternate path, what would such a path look like that could eventually approach the build quality of an Apple Macbook Pro? That product doesn't have to exist yet, it just has to be on the path.

(I looked at Alienware's M2 and M3, but it cost about the same as an MBP16 but with more blue LEDs.)

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ls65536 ◴[13 Nov 20 02:40 UTC] No.25078194[source]▶
> The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future.

The other thing that really can't be discounted here is that a lot of the HN crowd are likely the default go-to people in their circle of family and friends for this sort of stuff, and in many cases they may also have major purchasing influence and technical decision making power in their respective businesses. Turning off one of them may be inconsequential on its own in the short term, but it could seriously add up to a lot more destroyed mindshare and significantly more "lost" sales over time.

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peterburkimsher ◴[13 Nov 20 04:37 UTC] No.25078924[source]▶
Yes, I can specifically say that 2 other people have chosen not to update past Mojave 10.14 because of my advice.

I'm experimenting with Linux these days. There are some minor annoyances with using an outdated version of macOS. Unfortunately those apply to not just one or two apps, but every part of the OS when using Linux. Basic things like WiFi drivers or sleep support. I'm encouraged by the trackpad driver project, but it's not there yet. So I'm still hanging on to my 2014 Retina MacBook Pro using 10.13, until some Linux distro catches up. I feel like that will happen soon though.

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ant6n ◴[13 Nov 20 06:43 UTC] No.25079658[source]▶
I should update to Mojave one of these days...
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1. peterburkimsher ◴[13 Nov 20 07:30 UTC] No.25079928[source]▶
Not if you want Time Machine; stay on HFS+ if you're a dev and want easier cross-platform support.
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2. samtheprogram ◴[13 Nov 20 22:17 UTC] No.25088193[source]▶
One of my family members is using Time Machine and is on Catalina, which forces APFS -- is there something I should be worried about (outside of cross-platform support)?
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3. peterburkimsher ◴[13 Nov 20 23:03 UTC] No.25088611[source]▶
Directory hard links are not available in APFS. Even though your internal drive is APFS, your Time Machine backup drive is probably still HFS+.

https://eclecticlight.co/2020/05/26/how-to-make-time-machine...