Not seen: the 100,000 USD bill for the Apple Car

Alt text: A cartoon photo of a “Windows” car that is in need of maintenance and care, and an “Apple” car that just has an on/off switch

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    The apple car doesn’t have a reverse gear. But the fan boys are like “It doesn’t need a reverse, that’s the point, Apple is all about forward thinking”.

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    The difference is that you can install Linux on your Windows car and upgrade the engine if you want some more power. If a rear light bulb breaks in your Apple car, you will have to buy the new iCar 2 Pro Max™ or pay almost as much to get the bulb replaced.

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        Not on silicon macs as far as I know. Asahi linux would be the best option, but I wouldn’t want that as my daily driver. Virtualization is more viable.

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        Isn’t MacOS founded on Unix?

        I had at least one Prof at university that claimed MacOS and Linux have more in common than Microsoft and has with either. The only thing tying MS and Apple is the vampiric nature of the companies.

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          Founded, no, but since OS X, yes. Not sure what your point is, though.

          Edit: accidentally double-posted since first one disappeared

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            No meaningful point. Just find it funny that everyone is so used to comparing MS/Apple. Its apples and oranges garbage fires (fueled by spreadsheets).

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        You’re right (although to my knowledge there is only one Linux distro compatible with the new Macs), I just wrote down the first thing I thought of to say that Windows PCs are mostly open systems which allow a lot of tinkering and even the complete replacement of most components (BIOS can sometimes reflashed with a custom build, I don’t know how feasible it is on a Mac).

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      I’ve owned Macs for years. Yes, it is the second picture, but if you take the shroud off you pretty much do whatever you want. Meaning, I’ve got a proper Unix terminal that I can use to do anything. You can tune to your heart’s content, you just don’t have to.

      Compared to my Windows machine, where I just count of doing a fresh install every year or two just to keep it running.

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      Hey, I never said I was gonna buy an Apple Car. I know how they play their game. I’m not holding the wheel wrong.

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    Linux

    EDIT: That’s Inspector Gadget’s “Gadget-Mobile” for those not yet middle aged.

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      All of the parts will be glued together and all of the screws would be the oddly shaped, non-standard pentalobed TS1 screws.

      https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcT9uMgxRsi_bPsr35_VjRX_U2zdDyr2rRViaz3z9FSRWZTgPM0s4xN1q8LtgmNC67TE5wUOX3fZVbROH4K7WevqV-fABV2tIVKNylH1tz9s-P4jzCbnMgrQ-A&usqp=CAc

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          Police are already being sent to your address we got through backdoors and they will make you compensate 20% of Apple’s annual revenue (not profits). You are lucky you only mentioned unauthorized tools that can bring down Apple’s hard-earned profits. This compensation can go up to 85% in the case where mentioned tools are also found in your vicinity.

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      The image kind of shows that statement. The car is just a black white box with a power button, no clue how it works, just that it’s working for now

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    Linux is a top-fuel dragster where you rebuild the engine every few races /s Fitting linux into this meme is pretty impossible considering how different distros can be. Mint is a two-seater grocery car, debian is an old volvo, gentoo is the drag racer, etc. Its like comparing a single car to a whole company.

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      It would be a car completely flat on the ground, made up of all it’s parts neatly spread out. A geek stands in the center of it all holding an electric screwdriver in one hand and a blow torch in the other wearing a welders mask.

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    I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management

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      In my uneducated opinion it’s two prongs:

      1. Average person doesn’t want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.

      2. Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.

      It’s a wildly successful strategy.

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        I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.

        There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.

        Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files

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        I’m an Apple user. I used to enjoy tinkering with my system (this was in the days of System 7 and ResEdit), but now I just want it to work unobtrusively. I don’t want to have to think about my OS; I want to concentrate on what I’m doing with my OS. Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.

        Personally, I don’t give a shit about luxury, but then, I’ve never cared about that in any context.

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          Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.

          That’s true if all of your devices are apple. I have Windows and an iPad, and it is unnecessarily frustrating to get the iPad to communicate with my PC. Apple keeps insisting on getting in the way.

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          Funny how it is, to me the window management of macOS is atrocious and constantly gets in the way — an issue I don’t have with Windows 11. In a matter of fact, the window management in windows is awesome.

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            Yeah, that’s why heated OS debates bother me. Some are better at certain things, others are better at different things. Just use what you like. It’s not worth getting angry about.

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          I hella feel that but re: phone on my end. I have tons of Windows machines and a couple Linux boxes and I don’t want to have to muck about with my phone with custom ROMs or… anything.

          I don’t want to think about my phone. I’ve got a five year old iPhone that runs like the day I got it, and I’ve got all of my texts from 10 years ago and 20k+ photos. I’ve never reformatted it.

          Apple gets a lot of hate on Lemmy but damn are their phones exactly what I want.

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      I’m a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They’ve done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it’s nuts. I’ve tried the same on Linux, and there’s just nothing out there that can match it.

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      If open source projects had the marketing budgets of apple (and as early as apple did), they’d be in the spot instead. Hell, chromeOS tried, and kind of succeeded with it’s Chromebook, but they still didn’t market it like Apple.

      But Apple did some crazy effective shit, like donate full computer labs to schools. Hook em while they’re young!

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        which is what apple is doing in the education field in germany currently. almost giving ipads away to schools and large companies with a lot of apprentices.

        the only problem is they gave apple products to future electronics technicians. we all hate them (except for the few apple fanboys).

        an ipad is basically a regular tablet with a fancy-pants processor that you will never use to its full potential, horrible battery life, made out of expensive materials, with the most locked down OS ever.

        i’ve actually had to use my personal phone for work stuff that the ipad was just too locked down to do.

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          Ha, that’s interesting. And I felt the same way, having already been brought up with Dos and Windows at an early age, when they pushed iMacs in class, I groaned. Now, it’s a whole other animal with the tablet and phone generation (with a few exceptions where a district will opt to get a Chromebook which is, honestly, significantly worse!)

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    Why did they bother putting a picture of a mechanic next to the disposable e-waste car that can’t be repaired?

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      Because users can’t pop the hood to turn it on and off themselves. They have to pay that guy $500 to do it.

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    Man, I remember this image when my IT professor showed this image. Of course she was entrenched in linux ideology.

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      entrenched in Linux ideology

      tell me you’ve never left your windows bubble even a little bit without saying it

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        I mean, I have been maining Archlinux w/h KDE Plasma for about 3-4 years now. I don’t want to go back to windows anytime soon as a daily driver. I just remember her being VERY preachy about linux. (Well, it was a linux class.)

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    Windows is placing touchscreens with half the functions over the physical buttons, while Apple has vibrating touchscreens that do most things, but the SuperButtons that do everything are only available for Windows.