Why Victor Meldrew types, why?
I’m guessing the average age of El Reg readers is increasing quite dramatically as there’s an awful lot of ‘grumpy old men’. Windows = meh, hate hate hate, Linux blah blah. Apple = hate hate hate, my Android does XYZ.
Consumer based technology is never going to meet the needs of everyone which is made so obvious by these comments.
Apple make/supply some incredibly user friendly and impressive (although costly) tech. The whole form over function thing is what a lot of people want. I don’t do stats but I’m guessing a lot of Apple fanboys prefer the whole ‘it does what I want when I want’ approach and will sacrifice that extra couple of quid for the privilege.
I have a personal and work phone - one Apple, one Android and I like both equally. The Android suits my business needs and the Apple makes consumption of media enjoyable.
I like Linux, had a MacBook for years (that I loved) and now use Windows for my daily driver. Again, all have positives and negatives and so I use what suits my needs rather than bleat about one is better than the other.
Embrace difference, embrace change = both are the only guarantees we have when it comes to tech.
This comments section is going the same way as a major news organisation and their HYS section.
Cheers up grandad :)
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