> The standard of their laptops is not good enough any more
I'm with you on this. When I upgraded my 2015 MBP (or was it 2013?), I was still able to manually install new memory and SSD. Since then, newer MacBooks are not user-extensible, from what I hear, with sealed parts. They have a touchbar instead of function keys or escape (!), the keyboard quality is questionable, and there's no standard headphone jack. macOS has seen unstable releases with poor QA, with one bug bricking the machine.
In addition to those issues, I've been disappointed with Apple's stance and decisions about their proprietary operating system. I guess I've known all along, but it's become glaring. In newer versions I've noticed dark patterns, like being unable to set a different browser than Safari as the default application to open certain file extensions.
> the privilege of writing apps for Apple
This summarizes my feeling. Especially compared to what Microsoft has been pouring efforts into open-source, the way Apple is treating their long-time fans is luke warm at best, hostile at worst.
That's why, as excited I am about the potential of Swift as a cross-platform language, unless companies other than Apple are behind it, I won't be comfortable investing time into it.
I'm with you on this. When I upgraded my 2015 MBP (or was it 2013?), I was still able to manually install new memory and SSD. Since then, newer MacBooks are not user-extensible, from what I hear, with sealed parts. They have a touchbar instead of function keys or escape (!), the keyboard quality is questionable, and there's no standard headphone jack. macOS has seen unstable releases with poor QA, with one bug bricking the machine.
In addition to those issues, I've been disappointed with Apple's stance and decisions about their proprietary operating system. I guess I've known all along, but it's become glaring. In newer versions I've noticed dark patterns, like being unable to set a different browser than Safari as the default application to open certain file extensions.
> the privilege of writing apps for Apple
This summarizes my feeling. Especially compared to what Microsoft has been pouring efforts into open-source, the way Apple is treating their long-time fans is luke warm at best, hostile at worst.
That's why, as excited I am about the potential of Swift as a cross-platform language, unless companies other than Apple are behind it, I won't be comfortable investing time into it.