As someone who has been using Apple products since like 2008, I have to agree, and I am not exaggerating. The "it just works" truth of Apple products has long been gone. Every OS release is riddled with bugs and silly design choices. That "polish" is still there in most cases, but it's just on the surface level. I have a 16" MBP and it runs like crap. Fans go full blast just by watching videos on youtube, animations lag all over, iMessage takes quite awhile to sync messages, and more often than not when I switch to iMessage I get a beachball animation. Also, if I click on an image in iMessage it takes a couple seconds to even highlight it so I can hit spacebar to preview, and the preview animation is laggy. Finder is slow to switch between tabs, to type in search, etc. This is not the performance I would expect from a $2700 laptop. In comparison, my PC at home with Windows 10 is lightning fast and there are no clunky animations holding me up. Say what you want about windows, but I think anyone who uses both side by side nowadays can attest to the fact that windows 10 is FAST. And that is coming from someone who used to loathe windows. Now I can do everything I need to on both platforms and I am actually faster on windows. It gets out of my way, which is something macOS used to do. In most cases, I can actually do things on windows faster and simpler. A small example, taking a screenshot. On macOS a clunky keyboard shortcut of shift+ctrl+cmd+4 to take a screenshot of a custom area and attach to clipboard. On windows, it's literally just printscreen button. Compare Apple Music (on both macOS and iOS) to Spotify. Apple Music is a joke in terms of speed. It lags out constantly trying to refresh pages (sometimes it won't even load anything until you restart the app), and it's just clunky. The macOS version is much worse than the iOS version. I use Telegram with most of my close friends (I know, a shocker for someone who lives in the US) and the Telegram app is 10x better than iMessage. it is lightning fast, super smooth, always up to date, always in sync, and has more features. Just something as simple as replying to a individual message is better. On iMessage it is a laggy annoying animation to reply, and on Telegram it is super smooth. I am so used to the speed and smoothness of Telegram now that I actually hate having to use iMessage. It feels so clunky and slow. Even in browsers, I find Edge better these days than Safari. I can actually run uBlock Origin in Edge for one thing. I could go on and on with a huge list of these things, but anyone who uses both daily knows what I am talking about. A lot of people on this forum haven't used windows in years and they only use macOS and Apple products so they really don't know what they're talking about when it comes to comparing to other platforms.
