I like Apple. Or, rather, I like what Apple was in two periods of time - the period between the Apple I and IIgs, and the period between the G3 iMac and Mac OS X 10.6.
But it’s an unavoidable truth that their best days are behind them. They no longer have any real vision, and they feel the need to innovate even if it means breaking working solutions.
Swift didn’t need to exist. SwiftUI *definitely* didn’t need to exist. iOS needed to exist, but it didn’t need to take over the whole company.
And yet, those things exist in spite of lack of need. It’s important to remember as you age that the things that are important to you aren’t necessarily important to the people who make those things. They will fuck them up or stop making them the minute doing so is more profitable short term. You have to be willing to break up with a brand.
In this case, though, it stings because there currently exists no alternative which fully fills the needs that Mac OS X 10.5/6 filled for me, and every version of the OS has been worse ever since.
So I’m stuck buying whatever hardware is adequate to the task, and focusing my efforts on improving the software. GNUstep is the best hope left for making a desktop OS that is anywhere near as good as OS X 10.5.
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