about a year ago there was a conversation with some Tesla/Apple comparisons that your last couple comments reminded me of... Here's
my response to it on how I got sucked in if interested.
Thank you very much for that! It explains quite a bit. Though really, my own feeling is similar to that of
@Badback when it comes to Apple. Back when the original iMac arrived, I had some hope that Apple would become a home computer company again, as they were with the Apple ][e. Nope. I don't mind the Macintosh or PowerBook at all, though -- they work fine and don't cram iTunes down my throat. I never liked any of the other i$#!+ devices. I just don't like iTunes, iPod, iPad, or iPhone. Something about the greatly simplified interface simply offends me, even if it happens to
'just work' for a lot of people. Mainly, I think, that the
'swipe' mechanism and menu setup does the exact opposite of what I would prefer, in a sort of
'push-me pull-me' manner. But beyond that, too much exposure to Windows over the years has further angered me about simplicity designed
'for the masses'. Because Microsoft kept moving things around in their OS
(Win95, Win95b, Win98, Win98se, WinXP, etc.), hiding them, renaming them, for no apparent reason, making it a lot easier for neophytes to ruin things, but a lot harder for geeks to fix them. Even the Plug-N-Play interface seemed to be more like Hide-N-Seek at times. So, I basically hate anything that is an Automatic feature in software these days, because the default is for some reason always set to the exact opposite of what I would want, in order to
'save time' for everyone else. It doesn't help that Windows 8 and now Windows 10 are set up so that they are now practically useless without a touchscreen, or that mouse operations have changed to the point the slightest flick of the wrist makes something happen that you didn't intend at all. I now use Linux, and it doesn't do anything automatically without asking me first. For me, that's better.