Western democracy is treated like a religion these days. You either adopt it or die. Seeing people claiming China should be destroyed because it's a totalitarian country is amusing to me, it reminds me of the christian crusades. In reality, most Chinese don't give a crap about democracy as long as economy is flourishing.
You don’t see any Russian propaganda probably because they were all filtered out by western media. Same probably goes the other way in Russia. Propaganda machine is definitely going to be running non-stop during war times. That’s why it’s important to reserve some critical thinking skills reading all these news. Unfortunately, people eat the propaganda like breakfast on this side, I’d imagine it’s probably the same situation on the other side. All these echo chambers just add fuel to the feud. I’d hate if this is what kicks off the next world war, with both sides feeling justified and righteous, dumping nukes on the other side because “they all deserve it”.
> Mac are not friendly to a developer. And they never were. The only reason why developer use them is because they need to program on iOS and thus need XCode (that is a terrible IDE) and the iOS toolchain.
That's just wrong on so many levels. The majority of developers using Mac don't touch Xcode at all.
Don't see what macOS gives you more than Linux if you don't need XCode. While I can understand developers that use Windows (there are a ton of compilers and development environments that unfortunately are only for Windows, especially in the embedded field) I can't name a tool other than XCode that doesn't run on Linux.
And why should you spend a ton of money on an underpowered Mac while with the same amount of money you get a more performant Linux workstation I have no idea. And not name the fact that m1 Mac are cheap, yes they kind of are (not really, for 1200$ you can get a similar performant Linux laptop), if you don't need to run x86 software or virtual machines.
MacOS to me is an OS that is difficult to use and understand, with so many problems (that are admitted even by Apple, for example it wastes a ton of RAM for nothing).
Really I know macOS, I had a Macbook in the past, a Macbook pro 15 mid 2015, and it was kind of good (well, I paid it a ton of money), and still some things I appreciate more than my current laptop (the screen and the touchpad are fantastic, for example), but I hated MacOS, update after update it become slower and more full of useless stuff that consumed resources, and full of stupid privacy and security features that get in your way (like stupid prompts that you get when you try to run a third party application downloaded from the internet and you have to get every time in the Settings application to consent it - something that I had to research on the internet how to do the first time. They say Apple is intuitive right?)
> MacOS to me is an OS that is difficult to use and understand, with so many problems (that are admitted even by Apple, for example it wastes a ton of RAM for nothing).
Have you met android ? Omg that system requires DOUBLE the ram to do literally anything that an iPhone can do.. doesn't matter that it runs Linux technically either.. when shovel java on top of it..
Oops, I meant to say deccelerated. But it appears to be worse - stagnant at 14%. So, I think the real reason they need to ask themselves - why? They've tried a few things with low cost iPhone SE models to gain market share but it has failed thus far. Perhaps it is the inertia of switching OS/GUI, or perhaps it is an indictment of how bad the iPhone UI has gotten. Or, that Android and other phone manufacturers are offering mutually exclusive things that iPhone simply cannot satisfy. It surely isn't the shortages.
Or perhaps we need to be asking ourselves: Why do we demand ever-increasing growth in order to declare that a company—hell, even a product or a segment within a company—is "healthy"?
Smartphones hit a saturation point a while back. At this point the only ways for Apple to grow marketshare are to a) lure away current Android customers, or b) convince first-time smartphone purchasers to go with iPhones at a higher rate.
Neither of those things are trivial, and not being able to do so for a little while should not be taken as an indication that something is wrong.
I have been using this app for 9 years because of its polished UX. I don't even mind paying for subscription model because of it, but this is killing its top selling point for me. Bye bye 1p.
Because nothing happened. So many westerners are so brainwashed on any China related topics that conspiracy theories are accepted as fact without any sort of filtering. If you think CCP is going to make the richest man(a popular public figure no less) in China disappear overnight, you ate way too much propaganda.
