Ok peeps, ultra quick geek life story here.

I've been an #Macintosh user (that's what the good old original name was) since probably 1990 if I remember correctly. I got my first Mac in 1994, thus making me a paying #Apple customer for 30 years.

Apple was never perfect, they certainly took their share of coin for their products, but they were great for what they brought into the world: Innovation in computer UI/UX, functional consistency, focus on usability instead of the PC/DOS+Windows can of worms. It was great being an Apple user and i taught myself stuff using Macs (graphic design, early web content etc) that I'd likely wouldn't until years late if on a Windows box.

Fast forward to the 2000s: Apple recovers after Steve Jobs came back in 1997, innovative products are pumping out and changing the landscape of PCs and computing and the internet - again! iPod! Intel Macs! iPhone! Macs are technically catching up from their 1990s shortcomings. Life is good.

2010s rolls around. Steve Jobs kicks the bucket and the bean counters, vareerists and uninspiring suits like Tim Cook slowly take over completely. Apple turns from 'rising star' to 'cash cow' (in marketer terminology). Everything is streamlined to a high quality standard, but moreso, a high price point.

Has anything 'major good' happened since Jobs signed off? No, Apple has languished innovation-wise. It's focusing on sure revenue streams from consumer go-tos like the iPhone to the 30% cut from their App Store, and overpriced, unrepairable MacBooks.

Apple is even becoming worse, in part by hobbling consumer interoperability (iMessage), forcing unnecessary peripherals on users (Lightning connectors) and their low key collaboration with law enforcement and authoritarian regimes (read: China), amongst other points.

So. Let me give you some advice, from a guy that used to nearly worship the Rainbow Fruit Mothership in Cupertino, California, before it gave you street cred to buy Apple logo product:

APPLE SUCKS

APPLE PRODUCTS SUCK THE MONEY OUT OF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT

APPLE DOESN'T INNOVATE ANYMORE

YOU BUY APPLE PRODUCTS FOR THE SAME REASON AS AN AUDI: THE LOGO

APPLE IS ACTUALLY BAD

STOP BUYING THEIR SHIT

I bought my final Apple product in 2010 and I haven't really looked to Apple since then, and I'm increasingly happy that I haven't.

Use Linux. Use Open, FLOSS solutions.

That is all. Repost this to save others from spending unnecessary money on a garbage company, thanks in advance.