From a personal perspective I have never owned a functioning apple product for longer than a few months. I switched to iphone a while back and ended up going through four iphones before I ended up switching back to android. I feel like in some regard it is an overstatement of the quality of their products. I'm not saying android is any better, but I honestly don't think the quality between apple products and lets say Microsoft/Samsung is as different as it is painted in media. I only have anecdotal evidence to go off though, so obviously this isn't something to take as gospel.
In this house right now: - Apple TV - Two Macbook Airs - Ipad Mini - Original iPod - Two Airport Extremes - Iphone 5S - Burly-as-fuck Mac Pro (the old, good kind) - Mac Mini By the time I bought my first mac I'd built a dozen PCs. My father maintained a network of a thousand of them. The first time I helped swap a hard drive we used a soldering iron. I was running Adaptec SCSI cards when some of their troubleshooting instructions involving checking continuity on traces with a voltmeter. But I bought my first mac 14 years ago so I can safely say I've had my feet in both camps. Apple has gone to shit. Total, utter shit. Yaay. iPad Pro. Can I get a Mac Pro that I can put cards into that will run faster than my eight year old tower that doesn't cost nine thousand dollars? And yeah - I know 60% of their revenue is now phones, and 10% is computers. But I'm really looking forward to Huawei eating their fucking lunch. I'm having to seriously contemplate building a goddamn PC to run Pro Tools. It's f'n ridiculous. The "high end" that used to trickle down? We're just sitting around hoping they open-source OSX and get it over with because sweet baby jesus this is untenable.
Not going to happen, but I bet a few high end audio software vendors throwing developer time or money at GNUStep could get whatever services they need from OsX cloned so they can port elsewhere relatively easily.We're just sitting around hoping they open-source OSX and get it over with because sweet baby jesus this is untenable.
You're not wrong. And the 16 gig price point is bullshit. But again, Apple's got its hands all up on my crotch right now. The only laptop I have is Mac-based and it does not play well with my N5. Google Music? It shits itself on my Mac now. And my Nexus can't hold music for shit when I'm using iTunes, so I have to use my shattered-ass iPod touch to play music, meaning I'm carrying two devices when I should only be using one. Any iPad apps I'm getting now have iPhone equivalents that are wasting away. So on, so forth.
Holy fuck they're STILL selling a 16GB phone? What is this, 2007? Google Music is bullshit on desktop. However, it syncs quite nicely with iTunes. And your Nexus doesn't need to hold anything, as you can stream over wifi (or if you're on TMobile, cellular without charge). There are plenty of iPad apps that don't exist on Android and it is not a seamless experience, but I'm seeing exactly nothing to draw me back in the fold. I haven't even looked at the new thing yet.