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You can’t think of any limitations that macOS has, that others don’t?

Not even the really, really big obvious (and recursive) one?



I don’t believe that this much willful obliviousness actually exists here, but I’ll state the obvious anyway: the big one that you failed to realize is about the hardware.

And, it’s recursively limited because of the limited choices even within their own lineup.

Enjoy your censorship I guess!


Honestly, I just wanted to know a real world case where this person had a mac, didn't know the limitations, discovered the limitations, and then switched.

Your sarcasm is misplaced.


Well, I am that person. I can go through a ton of other limitations that macOS has if you want…

But you moved the goalpost on me because first you just asked for a limitation and I gave you probably the largest one. You didn’t say anything about it being an unknown limitation before I got started using it… You said “I’ll bite“ as if you could not think of one limitation of the platform. I knew about the main limitation, that you can only run it on Apple hardware, before I bought it but I decided to go forward anyway because I want to compile an app for iOS and I decided that it would be much better than trying to maintain a hackintosh.

There was zero sarcasm in my response. Not even the part where I said “enjoy your center ship I guess”, because Apple fans seem to love making my text disappear for others if I don’t gush over Apples products. If you really want to know about all of the limitations that I did not know about before I purchased into the platform I’ll be glad to do that.

Here’s a big one: you simply cannot operate the entire OS with just a keyboard unless you add some third-party usability-correction utilities. It’s impossible. And those utilities are suck and they don’t work well and there’s a chance that Apple will take them away from you or cause problems with them in any given update. That’s why Stephen Hawking always used Windows, same as just about every other disabled user in the world.




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