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1. fedeb95 · 1790088079 · focus · HN ↗

   I have been a long time Android fan because of the tinkering you could do more easily than Apple. Then I started appreciating some of the design decisions behind especially iPhone, and it's been almost 7 years of iPhone usage.

   Recently I am starting to question some of the design decisions. Most native apps are bloated with functionalities, most of the time useless. Ads pop up everywhere, even before persistence; iCloud and backups are clearly designed to make you pay, the free space is useless.

   I am not that sure my next phone will be an iPhone.

   I have tried a recent Mac, and the system isn't intuitive at all. The first time I used GNOME, it was a breeze. Not the same with the MacBook system.

   1. boxed · 1790088227 · focus · HN ↗

      > I have tried a recent Mac, and the system isn't intuitive at all.

      You mean it's not the same as Windows. I personally find Windows infuriating after having been a mac user for decades even though I started out on windows way back in the win3.1->win2k era. It's just different.

      1. bee_rider · 1790088556 · focus · HN ↗

         >> I have tried a recent Mac, and the system isn't intuitive at all. The first time I used GNOME, it was a breeze. Not the same with the MacBook system.

         > You mean it's not the same as Windows. I personally find Windows infuriating after having been a mac user for decades even though I started out on windows way back in the win3.1->win2k era. It's just different.

         My first guess would be Linux. Although maybe they used Gnome as a one-off, liked it, and then switched to Windows for some reason.

         1. fedeb95 · 1790159281 · focus · HN ↗

            I didn't mention Windows so I don't know where the person commenting got it from ;)

            1. bee_rider · 1790175676 · focus · HN ↗

               The only thing I could figure is that maybe they weren’t familiar with Gnome (which is like, fair enough, I don’t know what the window manager in Windows is called) so they thought the next sentence was irrelevant or something?

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