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Context: this is a legit screenshot I took on my workplace around 1.5 years ago. Hopefully it's been patched by now? Completely ridiculous behavior

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago (58 children)

Not to talk shit about Mac users, but in this day and age with how advanced technology is, you have to be insane to buy a Mac. What kills it for me is that nothing is upgradeable on the damn thing, like zero. If your internal drive dies, you're SOL. And if I got this correctly, they now have the bios OS on the same drive, the Internal. So, you won't even be able to get to your bios. You won't be able to install the OS on external hard drive in case you needed to. This is insane and I can never understand why anyone would buy into this shit.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 62 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Mac users, and actually most laptop users, don't give a shit about the things you mention. They buy it, use it for some 2-5 years, then sell it and get a new model. Upgrading hardware is way too complicated for most people. They don't know or care what a BIOS is. It comes with the OS installed and that's the only thing they would ever want. Turn it on, use Safari, outlook, and office 365, maybe some tool like Photoshop/Ableton/etc, that's it.

I mean iPhones are the same right? They lock down everything so it's idiot proof and they control the environment exactly so they can maximise the smoothness of the experience.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I have to use an apple phone for work and it's sorta annoying to use. Like sure it's fast and snappy but there's no back button and it isn't as intuitive as Apple users want you to believe it is.

[–] IamAnonymous@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s just what people are used to. I find a few stuff annoying when I use my android phone for work. Also, you can swipe left anywhere to go back. Didn’t feel the need for a button

[–] PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbt 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swiping can be hard for a 90 year old with arthritis or anyone with a lot of other physical disabilities. For all the work Apple has put into marketing the iPhone as the accessible option, I'd rather give great grandpa an android in 2023.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Lots of androids already have an accessibility setting to make things easier too. Gets rid of settings and lesser used options on screen, makes things nice and big and simplifies the UI so it has a few things that older people might want/use.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Ah good to know. Might need to look at the tutorial menus or something.

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