Everyone has a MacBook Neo take, so here's mine.
Apple has, in my opinion, been a net negative for computing, and to a stunning degree. They've normalized DRM for software so completely that it will possibly take decades to get back the rights that we lost. They've used that power to make life worse for queer folks and to cozy up to the Trump administration.
But. There's something fascinating about the Neo.
@glyph made the point that the Neo is an implicit promise from Apple that macOS will run just fine on 8 GB of memory for the next 8 years.
But I think it goes farther than that: Apple made a reference device for application developers. They've never been shy about enforcing requirements on developers, and this is an interesting positive side to that: developers now have a huge incentive to make applications that fit within modest memory limits.
@khm @glyph lol Apple phones are the longest supported by a mile. I had to buy an android for work recently and it was *difficult* to find one that promised 5 years of security updates. Many only promised 2.
I have an iPhone 6 on my desk (released in 2014) that got a security update TODAY, for iOS 12, an OS that was technically dropped 3 years ago, but apparently this security bug was bad enough that Apple decided to push an update for it
Edit: Apparently that update was pushed in January, and I just saw it today. STILL
Cassandra is only carbon now
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Nick Foster