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DESCRIPTION: A space for anyone who uses Apple products, appreciates what they get right, and wants to talk plainly about what they don’t. This is a friendly place for healthy criticism. You don’t have to love the company. You don’t have to hate it either. If you want honest discussion about Apple hardware, software, ecosystem choices, design decisions, frustrations, or pleasant surprises, you’re welcome here.

RULES: This is a place for:

Thoughtful critique, real-world experience, and respectful disagreement
Sharing tips, solutions, workarounds, and overlooked features
Questioning decisions without turning everything into a complaint thread
Welcoming users at any level of experience or enthusiasm

This is not a place for:

Trolling, pile-ons, or knee-jerk negativity
Brand loyalty debates
Personal attacks, sarcasm aimed at other users, or rhetorical grandstanding
Gatekeeping based on technical skill, platform history, or product ownership
Derogatory references to cults or fanboyism. I don’t actually believe those things really exist anymore. If you wanna talk about them in a historical context, that’s totally fine.

You use Apple. You think about it. (Maybe you think different). That’s all it takes to participate here.

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If you could fix one thing about the Apple ecosystem, what would it be? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would say a return to what made them so great when osx came out. One person mentioned open standards which would be part of that but also that their machines were known for power and options as oppose to minimal designs. Lots of ports with strong processors and memory. Also apple care that pretty much was total coverage for three years. This is why I was a big mac fan in the aughts and went away from it in the teens. When the mac store responded to power cable fraying and usage and not just remediating it, when we could not plug into an external monitor without a dongle, when they dropped the cool server edition. The iphone was incredible as were smartphones in general but when they applied that to the whole ecosystem it was like not having a real laptop anymore.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

You’re spot on, my friend.