Apple Just Lost Me

Summary

Apple Just Lost Me Apple has just lost me as an user. It will take me a while before I can fully migrate away from their devices, and I suspect I might need to keep a mac around for my work, but I will move all my personal computing to Linux and Android again. I been an Apple user since MacOS 8. I had both a Newton MessagePad 2000 and an eMate 300. I got the original blue toilet-seat iBook G3. I was there for the developer road show introducing MacOS X. I paid for my developer account since then. Recently, I had a Macbook Air, iPhone 17, iPad Mini. I’m gonna throw all of them away — not literally ofc — because of recent slop this company been shipping. It is death through a thousand papercuts. To summarise for yous there are three main issues for me and the last one happened today and is what pushed me through the threshold. Gatekeeper I absolutely hate Apple quarantine and gatekeeping of software. As a developer, I should just be able to ship software to those interested in my apps. Be aware that I don’t give a flying fuck about mobile development, I’m talking about desktop apps here. I gave in to the Apple racketering scheme and got myself a developer account from the very start. I had to fax my card details to them, that is how long I had my account. Even though my software is packaged and notarised as per their requirements, they still show my users a dialog box confirming they want to run my app, something they do not for apps installed through their walled garden. This is just friction to punish developers outside their store. I am very tired of it. macOS 26 That has been an absolute fiasco. Liquid glass is completely broken from a design point of view. I have no idea how that got out of the door, and now multiple updates in, it still just as bad. Not only it looks ugly, and that is subjective of course, but it is visually broken. Interfaces built with AppKit or SwiftUI that rendered perfect, are now overlapping controls and clipping stuff. They have no consis...