Not seen: the 100,000 USD bill for the Apple Car

Alt text: A cartoon photo of a “Windows” car that is in need of maintenance and care, and an “Apple” car that just has an on/off switch

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    165·
    6 个月前

    The apple car doesn’t have a reverse gear. But the fan boys are like “It doesn’t need a reverse, that’s the point, Apple is all about forward thinking”.

  • Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de
    110·
    6 个月前

    The difference is that you can install Linux on your Windows car and upgrade the engine if you want some more power. If a rear light bulb breaks in your Apple car, you will have to buy the new iCar 2 Pro Max™ or pay almost as much to get the bulb replaced.

      • Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de
        8·
        6 个月前

        Not on silicon macs as far as I know. Asahi linux would be the best option, but I wouldn’t want that as my daily driver. Virtualization is more viable.

      • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        5·
        6 个月前

        Isn’t MacOS founded on Unix?

        I had at least one Prof at university that claimed MacOS and Linux have more in common than Microsoft and has with either. The only thing tying MS and Apple is the vampiric nature of the companies.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
          9·
          6 个月前

          Founded, no, but since OS X, yes. Not sure what your point is, though.

          Edit: accidentally double-posted since first one disappeared

          • kora@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            6 个月前

            No meaningful point. Just find it funny that everyone is so used to comparing MS/Apple. Its apples and oranges garbage fires (fueled by spreadsheets).

      • Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        6 个月前

        You’re right (although to my knowledge there is only one Linux distro compatible with the new Macs), I just wrote down the first thing I thought of to say that Windows PCs are mostly open systems which allow a lot of tinkering and even the complete replacement of most components (BIOS can sometimes reflashed with a custom build, I don’t know how feasible it is on a Mac).

    • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      6 个月前

      I’ve owned Macs for years. Yes, it is the second picture, but if you take the shroud off you pretty much do whatever you want. Meaning, I’ve got a proper Unix terminal that I can use to do anything. You can tune to your heart’s content, you just don’t have to.

      Compared to my Windows machine, where I just count of doing a fresh install every year or two just to keep it running.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      6 个月前

      Hey, I never said I was gonna buy an Apple Car. I know how they play their game. I’m not holding the wheel wrong.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    59·
    6 个月前

    Linux

    EDIT: That’s Inspector Gadget’s “Gadget-Mobile” for those not yet middle aged.

    • Gork@lemm.ee
      30·
      6 个月前

      All of the parts will be glued together and all of the screws would be the oddly shaped, non-standard pentalobed TS1 screws.

      https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcT9uMgxRsi_bPsr35_VjRX_U2zdDyr2rRViaz3z9FSRWZTgPM0s4xN1q8LtgmNC67TE5wUOX3fZVbROH4K7WevqV-fABV2tIVKNylH1tz9s-P4jzCbnMgrQ-A&usqp=CAc

        • Land_Strider@lemmy.world
          10·
          6 个月前

          Police are already being sent to your address we got through backdoors and they will make you compensate 20% of Apple’s annual revenue (not profits). You are lucky you only mentioned unauthorized tools that can bring down Apple’s hard-earned profits. This compensation can go up to 85% in the case where mentioned tools are also found in your vicinity.

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      6 个月前

      The image kind of shows that statement. The car is just a black white box with a power button, no clue how it works, just that it’s working for now

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    6 个月前

    Linux is a top-fuel dragster where you rebuild the engine every few races /s Fitting linux into this meme is pretty impossible considering how different distros can be. Mint is a two-seater grocery car, debian is an old volvo, gentoo is the drag racer, etc. Its like comparing a single car to a whole company.

    • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
      11·
      6 个月前

      It would be a car completely flat on the ground, made up of all it’s parts neatly spread out. A geek stands in the center of it all holding an electric screwdriver in one hand and a blow torch in the other wearing a welders mask.

  • Minotaur@lemm.ee
    23·
    6 个月前

    I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      31·
      6 个月前

      In my uneducated opinion it’s two prongs:

      1. Average person doesn’t want to fix or upgrade their computer even if they had the capability to do so, so it might as well be a black box.

      2. Marketing. People want to feel that they own something luxurious.

      It’s a wildly successful strategy.

      • Minotaur@lemm.ee
        8·
        6 个月前

        I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.

        There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.

        Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files

      • magnetosphere@fedia.io
        6·
        6 个月前

        I’m an Apple user. I used to enjoy tinkering with my system (this was in the days of System 7 and ResEdit), but now I just want it to work unobtrusively. I don’t want to have to think about my OS; I want to concentrate on what I’m doing with my OS. Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.

        Personally, I don’t give a shit about luxury, but then, I’ve never cared about that in any context.

        • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
          6·
          6 个月前

          Apple certainly has its drawbacks, but I’ve yet to see an OS that’s better at getting out of your way and staying out of your way.

          That’s true if all of your devices are apple. I have Windows and an iPad, and it is unnecessarily frustrating to get the iPad to communicate with my PC. Apple keeps insisting on getting in the way.

        • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 个月前

          Funny how it is, to me the window management of macOS is atrocious and constantly gets in the way — an issue I don’t have with Windows 11. In a matter of fact, the window management in windows is awesome.

          • magnetosphere@fedia.io
            2·
            6 个月前

            Yeah, that’s why heated OS debates bother me. Some are better at certain things, others are better at different things. Just use what you like. It’s not worth getting angry about.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          6 个月前

          I hella feel that but re: phone on my end. I have tons of Windows machines and a couple Linux boxes and I don’t want to have to muck about with my phone with custom ROMs or… anything.

          I don’t want to think about my phone. I’ve got a five year old iPhone that runs like the day I got it, and I’ve got all of my texts from 10 years ago and 20k+ photos. I’ve never reformatted it.

          Apple gets a lot of hate on Lemmy but damn are their phones exactly what I want.

    • swab148@startrek.website
      14·
      6 个月前

      I’m a die-hard Linux guy, but nothing compares to Mac for music production. They’ve done something magical with the kernel that gives you almost no input latency, like I could plug my guitar straight into a MacBook and record over a backing track in real time, it’s nuts. I’ve tried the same on Linux, and there’s just nothing out there that can match it.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 个月前

      If open source projects had the marketing budgets of apple (and as early as apple did), they’d be in the spot instead. Hell, chromeOS tried, and kind of succeeded with it’s Chromebook, but they still didn’t market it like Apple.

      But Apple did some crazy effective shit, like donate full computer labs to schools. Hook em while they’re young!

      • KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
        8·
        6 个月前

        which is what apple is doing in the education field in germany currently. almost giving ipads away to schools and large companies with a lot of apprentices.

        the only problem is they gave apple products to future electronics technicians. we all hate them (except for the few apple fanboys).

        an ipad is basically a regular tablet with a fancy-pants processor that you will never use to its full potential, horrible battery life, made out of expensive materials, with the most locked down OS ever.

        i’ve actually had to use my personal phone for work stuff that the ipad was just too locked down to do.

        • taiyang@lemmy.world
          4·
          6 个月前

          Ha, that’s interesting. And I felt the same way, having already been brought up with Dos and Windows at an early age, when they pushed iMacs in class, I groaned. Now, it’s a whole other animal with the tablet and phone generation (with a few exceptions where a district will opt to get a Chromebook which is, honestly, significantly worse!)

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    20·
    6 个月前

    Why did they bother putting a picture of a mechanic next to the disposable e-waste car that can’t be repaired?

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
      16·
      6 个月前

      Because users can’t pop the hood to turn it on and off themselves. They have to pay that guy $500 to do it.

  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 个月前

    Man, I remember this image when my IT professor showed this image. Of course she was entrenched in linux ideology.

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 个月前

      entrenched in Linux ideology

      tell me you’ve never left your windows bubble even a little bit without saying it

      • lessthanluigi@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 个月前

        I mean, I have been maining Archlinux w/h KDE Plasma for about 3-4 years now. I don’t want to go back to windows anytime soon as a daily driver. I just remember her being VERY preachy about linux. (Well, it was a linux class.)

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    5·
    6 个月前

    Windows is placing touchscreens with half the functions over the physical buttons, while Apple has vibrating touchscreens that do most things, but the SuperButtons that do everything are only available for Windows.