Charlie Stross on Nostr: Apple users from 1988-2008 had to justify to themselves staying with an awkwardly ...
Apple users from 1988-2008 had to justify to themselves staying with an awkwardly non-compatible platform run almost as a cult by a control freak (Steve Jobs). But Jobs got ill then died JUST as Apple launched a breakout product range (the iPhone, which revolutionized previously-awkward smartphones, and the iPad as a spin-off that totally overturned the idea of how a portable computer should work) and was replaced by a soulless paperclip maximizer of a CEO (to be unfairly nasty about Tim Cook).
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