Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[Samuel Fuller]

The Mac business only exists to sell overpriced pieces of junk to photographers, music studios, video editors and other assorted tards.
I just found out last week that you can't create a username in the latest version of MacOS which has a capital letter in it. Absolutely the most tarded OS I've ever used.

Citation needed.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

The Mac business only exists to sell overpriced pieces of junk to photographers, music studios, video editors and other assorted tards.
I just found out last week that you can't create a username in the latest version of MacOS which has a capital letter in it. Absolutely the most tarded OS I've ever used.

I mean Microsoft isn't much better. I had to fuck around way too much to bypass setting up an online account when installing 11.

 

[Susanna]

I mean Microsoft isn't much better. I had to fuck around way too much to bypass setting up an online account when installing 11.

I did this for the SolidWorks and Paint.net VM I run (only two pieces of software I use at home that won’t yet run on Linux), and while it worked fine for a couple months, it has now started nagging me to register an online account every single login. It has not yet begun actually forcing me to do so, at least.

Microsoft, I’m not some diehard privacy loon. If your online account shit actually worked, I wouldn’t mind doing it. But last time I tried it you utterly fucked up the configuration of three computers at once, and then would refuse to actually save even basic changes like new wallpapers. So no thank you.

 

[Free Alex Jones]

Citation needed.

I support a large number of Apple PCs running MacOS in enterprise environments, they are flabbergastingly a pain in the arse to manage.

What Macfags say : "Just get Jamf, it's sooo easy!"
The reality : "Gee, I guess I gotta write yet another fucking bash script for this exceedingly simple task"

Extensible SSO and Platform SSO are shit, and basically do not work.

You need it to be domain joined to authenticate users against Active Directory? Good fucking luck. Enjoy your random password resets and inability to remain a member of a fucking Windows server domain. Oh, you want to update reverse DNS records on the Windows DNS server? Yeah, good fucking luck with that too bro.

Let us not forget how extremely tarded the software is too. Companies still using a physical fucking USB dongle for licensing some of their products, like it's the 80s. Finder being so shit it's quicker to just open the Utilities folder directly to get to a terminal.

Then there's the userbase. Last month, new CEO asked for an Apple laptop. They got a top of the line Macbook Pro. The first things they asked to be installed on it were Edge, Microsoft Office, Teams and MS Project. MS Project doesn't even fucking exist, so they had to get a top of the line HP Elitebook also just to run it in Windows. This is why Apple Mac PCs have no place in an enterprise environment.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I support a large number of Apple PCs running MacOS in enterprise environments, they are flabbergastingly a pain in the arse to manage.

What Macfags say : "Just get Jamf, it's sooo easy!"
The reality : "Gee, I guess I gotta write yet another fucking bash script for this exceedingly simple task"

Extensible SSO and Platform SSO are shit, and basically do not work.

You need it to be domain joined to authenticate users against Active Directory? Good fucking luck. Enjoy your random password resets and inability to remain a member of a fucking Windows server domain. Oh, you want to update reverse DNS records on the Windows DNS server? Yeah, good fucking luck with that too bro.

Let us not forget how extremely tarded the software is too. Companies still using a physical fucking USB dongle for licensing some of their products, like it's the 80s. Finder being so shit it's quicker to just open the Utilities folder directly to get to a terminal.

Then there's the userbase. Last month, new CEO asked for an Apple laptop. They got a top of the line Macbook Pro. The first things they asked to be installed on it were Edge, Microsoft Office, Teams and MS Project. MS Project doesn't even fucking exist, so they had to get a top of the line HP Elitebook also just to run it in Windows. This is why Apple Mac PCs have no place in an enterprise environment.

That is all evidence that your IT department is full of lazy half-wits.

It is only that hard because they made it that hard and refuse to behave in a logical way.


And there's no proof in there whatsoever of the claim abou tuser names without caps being impossible, so your little tantrum is completely useless.

 

[WaterDeluxe]

How do people genuinely enjoy using Apple Watches? I just returned one that was gifted to me because I realized I'd rather have another $400 in my pocket instead of being able to check my iMessages a second faster than when just pulling out my phone.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

How do people genuinely enjoy using Apple Watches? I just returned one that was gifted to me because I realized I'd rather have another $400 in my pocket instead of being able to check my iMessages a second faster than when just pulling out my phone.

If you'd actually used it, you might have had more of a clue what it can do.

I've had one since the Series 1 came out, and the fitness tracking, heart monitor, navigation assistance and especially the Walkie-Talkie features have all been really useful.

 

[WaterDeluxe]

If you'd actually used it, you might have had more of a clue what it can do.

I've had one since the Series 1 came out, and the fitness tracking, heart monitor, navigation assistance and especially the Walkie-Talkie features have all been really useful.

Of course I used the health/fitness features. But it's not like Apple Watches are the only thing on the market that can track your workouts and the amount of calories you burned while doing them. While neat, it's not $400 neat.

 

[AnOminous]

How do people genuinely enjoy using Apple Watches? I just returned one that was gifted to me because I realized I'd rather have another $400 in my pocket instead of being able to check my iMessages a second faster than when just pulling out my phone.

I can't stand wearing a watch in general because it constricts my wrist. Even a loose watch to the point it is nearly falling off just feels wrong. Even if I did like this particular watch, I'd still rather have $400.

 

[Fcret]

Been toying with the idea of getting one of those M4 Mac Mini's, since I can get a discount due to my career, but was kind of shocked to see how there was no one paying attention to any of their desktops at the Apple store I went to the other day. All the customers were gathered around the phones but not one person checking out any of the laptops/desktops. Is this common? Just found it odd. I've actually noticed this twice at two different stores.

Macs are already the lowest volume product Apple sells, and something like 70% of Macs sold are specifically laptops. Also most people who are buying Macs are buying them online because there's a limited number of configurations available at most brick-and-mortar Apple stores.

I support a large number of Apple PCs running MacOS in enterprise environments, they are flabbergastingly a pain in the arse to manage.

What Macfags say : "Just get Jamf, it's sooo easy!"
The reality : "Gee, I guess I gotta write yet another fucking bash script for this exceedingly simple task"

Extensible SSO and Platform SSO are shit, and basically do not work.

You need it to be domain joined to authenticate users against Active Directory? Good fucking luck. Enjoy your random password resets and inability to remain a member of a fucking Windows server domain. Oh, you want to update reverse DNS records on the Windows DNS server? Yeah, good fucking luck with that too bro.

Most of our developers use Macs and we have a full AD setup with SSO. It sounds like your tech troons over in bongistan are just exceptionally poor quality.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Of course I used the health/fitness features. But it's not like Apple Watches are the only thing on the market that can track your workouts and the amount of calories you burned while doing them. While neat, it's not $400 neat.

It goes beyond that level of tracking and can do things like connect with the Music app on your phone to customize music during your workouts based on the pace for one, but it does a hell of a lot more.

The bigger point is, when you have something and don't know what it does, returning it and then asking what it does after the fact is retarded nigger behaviour.

 

[Enig]

Decided to play things on retard mode because Goldman Sachs told me being $300 short of their credit target even with a high score makes me untrustable for paying $233 a month for a M4 pro MBP, so thanks to ghetto credit Klarna and ebay I managed to secure a M3 pro MBP which is essentially base M4 performance with more cores. The caveat is I’m most likely going to have to run some terminal commands and yell at some west coast office’s IT head for being a retard since it was listed low due to being checked out of ABM but not the company MDM when it was cast out as office surplus (judging by the specs being a 12/18/36GB/1TB config which is BTO, 17 charge cycles prob from being on a standby rack and not having the box included which would indicate theft for fent money) so the seller unironically stated they used the MDM script on Github to reinstall Sequoia after a wipe.
Either way I’m not using decade old hardware for laptops now just in time for total Intel death.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Decided to play things on retard mode because Goldman Sachs told me being $300 short of their credit target even with a high score makes me untrustable for paying $233 a month for a M4 pro MBP, so thanks to ghetto credit Klarna and ebay I managed to secure a M3 pro MBP which is essentially base M4 performance with more cores. The caveat is I’m most likely going to have to run some terminal commands and yell at some west coast office’s IT head for being a retard since it was listed low due to being checked out of ABM but not the company MDM when it was cast out as office surplus (judging by the specs being a 12/18/36GB/1TB config which is BTO, 17 charge cycles prob from being on a standby rack and not having the box included which would indicate theft for fent money) so the seller unironically stated they used the MDM script on Github to reinstall Sequoia after a wipe.
Either way I’m not using decade old hardware for laptops now just in time for total Intel death.

Hopefully you never need it fixed, or it is going to SUCK.

 

[Enig]

Dear seller, thank you for fucking up and listing it as the smaller model.

This is practically a drop in replacement at 5x power scale for the 2015 MBP, it's perfect.

 

[Nguyen Van Phuoc]

Can they PLEASE demote all new Apple Watch announcements to a press release literally nobody gives a fuck about them at all stop wasting everyone’s time talking about them

 

[Hostile Takeover]

I miss when they did these things as a live show.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Can they PLEASE demote all new Apple Watch announcements to a press release literally nobody gives a fuck about them at all stop wasting everyone’s time talking about them

They are the biggest seller of watches in the world by value, so clearly plenty of people DO care about them.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

They are the biggest seller of watches in the world by value, so clearly plenty of people DO care about them.

The hypertension announcement is the one i really cared about during the presentation.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

The hypertension announcement is the one i really cared about during the presentation.

That feature has me regretting upgrading to a Series 10 early this year, honestly.

 

[Hostile Takeover]

The hypertension announcement is the one i really cared about during the presentation.

I'd just like to add to this, because it wasn't clear in the presentation. The hypertension detection will also be coming to older Apple watches:

Clearance for hypertension notifications from the FDA and other regulators is expected soon, and the feature will be available in more than 150 countries and regions — including the U.S. and the EU — this month. Hypertension notifications will be available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later, with watchOS 26.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-debuts-apple-watch-series-11-featuring-groundbreaking-health-insights/

That feature has me regretting upgrading to a Series 10 early this year, honestly.

Don't worry, it's coming to older models.