Yeah, I’m also a long time Mac user (started around the first versions of OS X, the first one I had was one of the candy-colored eMacs since they were cheap) and this convergence has been extremely obvious for a long time, but I really don’t care about it one way or the other. As long as my cli dev tools all work fine I’m a happy nerd; macOS’s selling point for me is that the GUI side is much less of a pain in the ass than Windows and more liable to Just Work™ than Linux.
And for the record, my problem isn’t that I’m a stupid Mac user who doesn’t know how to use rEaL CoMpUtErS; I ran some Linux distro or another from the 90’s up until 10 years ago when I switched to full-time macOS. I don’t have the patience to fiddle with my setup anymore, I just want an OS that gets out of my way and plays nice with my phone, and still lets me have a POSIX system with a sane cli and userland tools (and no, I’m not sold on WSL.)
Unsurprisingly I also have an iPhone, usually some old potato that I’ll swap to a marginally newer one if it breaks so badly that it doesn’t make sense to repair it (which doesn’t happen often to me.) Android always felt a bit clunky to me and I really don’t care about the customization options, so since I’m in the aforementioned Ecosystem an iPhone is a logical choice. And I do my gaming on a Steam Deck so I’ve got that side covered as well.
Yeah, I’m also a long time Mac user (started around the first versions of OS X, the first one I had was one of the candy-colored eMacs since they were cheap) and this convergence has been extremely obvious for a long time, but I really don’t care about it one way or the other. As long as my cli dev tools all work fine I’m a happy nerd; macOS’s selling point for me is that the GUI side is much less of a pain in the ass than Windows and more liable to Just Work™ than Linux.
And for the record, my problem isn’t that I’m a stupid Mac user who doesn’t know how to use rEaL CoMpUtErS; I ran some Linux distro or another from the 90’s up until 10 years ago when I switched to full-time macOS. I don’t have the patience to fiddle with my setup anymore, I just want an OS that gets out of my way and plays nice with my phone, and still lets me have a POSIX system with a sane cli and userland tools (and no, I’m not sold on WSL.)
Unsurprisingly I also have an iPhone, usually some old potato that I’ll swap to a marginally newer one if it breaks so badly that it doesn’t make sense to repair it (which doesn’t happen often to me.) Android always felt a bit clunky to me and I really don’t care about the customization options, so since I’m in the aforementioned Ecosystem an iPhone is a logical choice. And I do my gaming on a Steam Deck so I’ve got that side covered as well.