They’re not actually relinquishing any control. They’re just allowing subsidiary “app stores” to take a tiny cut while Apple still controls everything.
I’ve been an Apple fanboy for years, but less so these days. I can’t imagine that the EU won’t fine them for this, although it’s hard to imagine any fine that would make an impression on a $3 trillion company.
The tough thing is Mac laptops are the best. New ARM-based chips deliver an unexaggerated 15-20 hours of battery life. It is game changing to be able to use your laptop without being tethered to the wall all the time. It gives a low battery notification with 2 hours left. 2 hours was the full battery life of my last Intel-based laptop. You’re just not going to find that with any other laptop these days.
They’re not. I had a 2008 Unibody Macbook pro. In 2012 it literally fell apart. That was after 4 years of constantly hearing about recalls and fixes pushed by Apple for bad hardware fuckups.
During a search to find a fix for the snapped display frame I came across Louis Rossman who showed in multiple teardowns how poorly made Macbooks are.
It was a HUGE eye-opener. Macs are NOT well made. They have a fuck-ton of terrible design decisions.
They look nice but they’re shit.
E.g. my Lenovo P51 looks like a plasticy piece of shit. But I can pour a full bottle of water over the keyboard and drop it from head height but it will still work and will continue working for the next 15yrs+. Because it’s built to last.
Even Apple doesn’t have confidence in it’s products forcing you to buy Apple Care to extend a warranty that other laptop manufacturers give you free. I think my P51 had a free 3 or 5yr warranty. My Macbook’s was 1yr.
I agree, I almost got an air, but reconsidered when I saw how much I had to pay to increase the hard drive and ram.
It’s not worth it.
Snapdragon is releasing new laptop arm chip this year and chrome is testing the arm version of chrome for windows.
I think that we will see some decent battery optimized windows laptops this year.
The thing with the MBP is that it’s often considered “the best”, when in reality it’s just a premium work laptop. It’s built for heavy use, and it’ll do any extensive job well, whether it’s video editing, software engineering, whatever intensive specialist work you want to do for 8+ hours a day, 5 days a week.
In terms of branding, there isn’t a consistent competitor, but premium build laptops do exist. My daily driver is still my Surface Book, and outside of the track pad, I’d say it’s better than my MBP that I use for work. I run Windows and Fedora with no problems, and while I don’t bother with detaching the screen, it’s lasted through several jobs and dozens of projects with barely a slowdown. Sadly, Microsoft kept with the gimmicks and didn’t continue to pursue a MBP competitor long-term, otherwise I’d probably upgrade when needed.
This is a long-winded way to say that there is choice, and whereas a MBP is a consistent choice, you’ll probably get more bang for your buck by picking another highly-rated laptop from the premium market.
I have a Linux setup on a Lenovo laptop with 11hrs (not exaggerated, but heavily tuned), and that’s AMD. With ARM I’m not surprised, but is Apple the only company selling ARM laptops?
Qualcomm’s arm chips are the next best thing and they are nowhere near the apple ones. It pleases me greatly that people are porting linux to arm macs