they're just a mature company doing mature company things ... still there's a lot of really strong inertia:
the MacBook line of hardware is the best it's ever been
the phones continue to improve year over year incrementally sure but they're solid -- I'm very keen to see what the rumored folding iphone gets us
AirPods I can't live without
idk -- macOS26's spotlight just stole a lot of good things from things like Alfred and other launchers -- it continues to become a more useful OS
nothing I need to do for my day to day as a data engineer is hindered by being on a Mac -- linux and containers are useful and solved now (hello Colima)
maybe I am just a lost fanboy but im very happy currently
>the MacBook line of hardware is the best it's ever been
Only after 5 years of the worst it's ever been, something triggered a complete change of course and it's easy to forget how utterly awful the butterfly era was.
A lot of the rest of Apple feels like butterfly era thinking.
You can dwell on the past and be grumpy about it or you can enjoy the present and look happily towards the future. The latter is what I’m doing.
Only got better because we complained about it so much.
"How do you know its bad it isn't even out yet" is how things just get worse and worse