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miki123211 | on: Networking changes coming in macOS 27
Macs are nowhere near a monopoly.

I would (grudgingly) accept this argument for iOS, but for Mac OS it doesn't make any sense.

still_grokking | parent | next
If you want to keep your shiny Apple stuff you're effectively trapped. Their walled garden approach works extremely well…
coldtea | root | parent
What "walled garden"? The Mac-only apps aside, what's that that you couldn't get on Windows (and most even on Linux), either the same thing, or a zero-switch-cost subscription (it's not like you need to rebuy something to go from Music to Spotify for exampe).

iCloud? You can use Google Drive or Dropbox or whatever MS calls theirs. Apple Music? Pretty sure it plays at both.

Most major apps are cross platform (Adobe, Microsoft and such), or Electron based.

Syncing with your iPhone? You can do that from Windows and Linux as well. Airpods? Work with Android and Windows too.

And so on.

joe_mamba | root | parent
How many long term MacOS users actually know how to use anything else than MacOS and their ecosystem apps and would feel comfortable switching away?

I mean Average Joes off the street, who can't find Ukraine on the map, not HN users of Macs with a SaaS side hustle.

joe_mamba | parent
>Macs are nowhere near a monopoly.

You didn't read what I said. I said MacOS IS a monopoly in the Apple ecosystem.

Apple users dissatisfied with how MacOS is changing, as the one I was replying to, have nothing else to switch to without uprooting themselves out of the Apple ecosystem altogether, which most don't do but just put up with it.