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carlosjobim | on: Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
iOS is the best part of an iPhone, just like MacOS is the best part of a Mac. Android phones are cheaper than iPhones, so why not? The Android hardware is quite nice many times.
dylan604 | parent | next
Is that really true? When Apple came out with the original 2006 MacPro, it was the best computer to run Windows. When the TrashCan came out, there was a specific issue with Resolve that disappeared when booted into Windows. Apple blamed DaVinci, DaVinci blamed Nvidia, Nvidia blamed Apple.

I'm not suggesting I like Windows or anything nonsensical like that, but I'm just suggesting that their hardware is much better than their software.

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viraptor | parent | next
That's not been the case for quite a while. Every MacOS release for the last few years results in a choir of "just take a break to fix the bugs". Every new release breaks something about the UX, system crashing bugs are not fixed, old features are restricted and deprecated without replacements (sandbox?), the open sources are published incomplete and impossible to compile, silly user restrictions are in place (want to add a codec or fix the BT stack? lol, not allowed), etc. etc.

MacOS is a practically enforced part of Mac. I'd love to get rid of it because it's not even good.

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Danox | parent | next
I would say it’s the combination of iOS, MacOS, and the other three Apple OSs (ecosystems) and Apple Silicon is what puts Apple ahead of Microsoft, AMD, Intel, Nvidia and Google.
mayli | parent | next
Not really, the hw from apple is much better than android hw, like A18 compare with SG8 or M1 vs x86. the software itself is mostly worst than android.
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swiftcoder | parent | next
> iOS is the best part of an iPhone, just like MacOS is the best part of a Mac.

This is a very hot take. I think you'll find quite a lot of people are unhappy with the state of the two OSes, while still regarding the hardware as best-in-class

Danox | root | parent
Some of the people in the tech crowd may feel that way. In regular person land it’s very hard to beat Apple. A company that designs the OS and the hardware together as one wins out and if it was easy, more companies would have done it over the years.

It certainly is taking a whole bunch of people a lot of time to produce something better and I’m sorry, Windows and Microsoft aren’t it in the mid 80s in the early 90s there were many in some cases, better solutions by several vertical computer companies not saying all of them were better, but you can’t beat designing the operating system and the hardware under one roof again parasitically hanging off someone else’s hardware equals a bad, poorly performing solution.

ezst | parent
Can't disagree more, but heh :-)