SaltyCaramelApple

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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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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works

Do you remember when Apple felt… fun? When was that, for you, and what were you enjoying? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

My first experience was programming the LogoWriter turtle on an Apple IIE to draw pictures. And by pictures I mean like a square, and a circle, and you know maybe several ovals in a design, if you wanted to get fancy; but back then that was me making images on a fucking computer, instead of with a pencil and paper, and that was legendary in my little brain. And I had no idea I was actually learning programming at the time. Not that I know much now, but I’m constantly exposed to it, and I always refer back to how that worked, and frankly it all works exactly the same way now, just with different words and terms and symbols. I wasn’t really aware that what I was using was an Apple per-se the way we think of it now, but it’s still a happy memory that has stuck with me up until this day.