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Not seen: the 100,000 USD bill for the Apple Car
Alt text: A cartoon photo of a "Windows" car that is in need of maintenance and care, and an "Apple" car that just has an on/off switch
The apple car doesn't have a reverse gear. But the fan boys are like "It doesn't need a reverse, that's the point, Apple is all about forward thinking".
Tell me that while parallel parking
You're parking it wrong.
That's what You get for using a non apple authorised parking space. Your car gets bricked.
Of course you need to flip your car over to recharge it. What's wrong with that?
The difference is that you can install Linux on your Windows car and upgrade the engine if you want some more power. If a rear light bulb breaks in your Apple car, you will have to buy the new iCar 2 Pro Max™ or pay almost as much to get the bulb replaced.
You can install Linux on your Mac car too just fyi.
Not on silicon macs as far as I know. Asahi linux would be the best option, but I wouldn't want that as my daily driver. Virtualization is more viable.
installing linux on your pc is like 1UZ-swapping a miata (highly advanced toyotapilled car guy joke btw)
I’ve owned Macs for years. Yes, it is the second picture, but if you take the shroud off you pretty much do whatever you want. Meaning, I’ve got a proper Unix terminal that I can use to do anything. You can tune to your heart’s content, you just don’t have to.
Compared to my Windows machine, where I just count of doing a fresh install every year or two just to keep it running.
Linux is like the Windows car but the guy is smiling
He's like - you know what? What if I do want to change out my seats? What if I wanna, idk, have a new radio interface or whatever -
Like one of those hot rods you build yourself from parts you source from a co-op.
Stockholm syndrome
And he can't on most roads
Windows propaganda, reee
True. Luckily there is no Linux propaganda here. Hey... no need to push me out of WINDOOOOOOoooooo..o..o............
Where we're going...
Linux
EDIT: That's Inspector Gadget's "Gadget-Mobile" for those not yet middle aged.
That's how I know I'm old, I immediately knew what it was. And that it's mid-transformation, to boot!
Oh, just as much can go wrong with the Apple car. You just don't have the tools to fix it when it does.
All of the parts will be glued together and all of the screws would be the oddly shaped, non-standard pentalobed TS1 screws.
And they will lobby to ensure only their dealerships can fix your car
You can't even get past that engine cover to do any work on it.
The charging port is underneath the car
Linux is a top-fuel dragster where you rebuild the engine every few races /s Fitting linux into this meme is pretty impossible considering how different distros can be. Mint is a two-seater grocery car, debian is an old volvo, gentoo is the drag racer, etc. Its like comparing a single car to a whole company.
It would be a car completely flat on the ground, made up of all it's parts neatly spread out. A geek stands in the center of it all holding an electric screwdriver in one hand and a blow torch in the other wearing a welders mask.
I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management
In my uneducated opinion it's two prongs:
Average person doesn't want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.
Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.
It's a wildly successful strategy.
I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.
There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.
Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files
I'm a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They've done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it's nuts. I've tried the same on Linux, and there's just nothing out there that can match it.
Allegedly, Pipewire is a lot better at that now, you should give it another try!
If open source projects had the marketing budgets of apple (and as early as apple did), they'd be in the spot instead. Hell, chromeOS tried, and kind of succeeded with it's Chromebook, but they still didn't market it like Apple.
But Apple did some crazy effective shit, like donate full computer labs to schools. Hook em while they're young!
which is what apple is doing in the education field in germany currently. almost giving ipads away to schools and large companies with a lot of apprentices.
the only problem is they gave apple products to future electronics technicians. we all hate them (except for the few apple fanboys).
an ipad is basically a regular tablet with a fancy-pants processor that you will never use to its full potential, horrible battery life, made out of expensive materials, with the most locked down OS ever.
i've actually had to use my personal phone for work stuff that the ipad was just too locked down to do.
And also, charging a bougie price for it.
Why did they bother putting a picture of a mechanic next to the disposable e-waste car that can't be repaired?
Because users can't pop the hood to turn it on and off themselves. They have to pay that guy $500 to do it.
And the gas tank is on the bottom of the Apple car.
I generally like Apple, but I’m SO GLAD the “Apple Car” project was cancelled.
They just couldn't figure out how to restrict it only to Apple Roads.
Man, I remember this image when my IT professor showed this image. Of course she was entrenched in linux ideology.