This Time Apple Has Gone Too Far, Even For Apple's Standards

This time Apple has gone too far, even for Apple. I’ve always hated Apple products. I’m a PC guy. Not because I love windows so much, or am a Windows fan boy in anyway. I just can’t stand Apple’s closed down crap that they pass off as technology. You see the point of technology is to make our lives easier. It’s all about convenience and freedom of usage. That’s the whole point of all of this stuff. Technology makes our lives easier and gives us more freedom. Using Apple products is a gigantic inconvenience. I hate being inconvenienced.

So now Apple wants to do away with ports. Not just one specific port, but all ports. No longer will you be allowed to connect multiple devices at the same time. Oh no you can’t! Apple won’t allow that kind of nonsense. God forbid if you wanted to do something like removing the battery. Forget it.

Apple wants to tell you how and in what way you should be using their products. They love to shut down everything that you can and should be able to do with your device. All of it under the phony pretense of ease of use, or aesthetics.

Remember those old Emacs and Imacs? I couldn’t stand the whole all in one design in which they built on their desktops. Apple doesn’t believe in peripherals anymore either, and designed their Imacs by putting all of the internal components into the monitor. More specifically they built them behind the monitor. The Logic board, hard drive, RAM, power supply, all mounted behind the monitor. So if you wanted to do anything like say, upgrade RAM, or replace a hard drive, it became a monumental task.

I thought that was bad. This time, Apple has taken the lunacy one step further. They’re designing the new Macbooks with just a single USB port. The newest Macbooks that are coming out will have just the one USB-C port on the side of the chassis. Now it’s great that the new Macbooks have support for the new USB type C, however removing a user’s ability to do well anything is an abomination to the computer.

Mac has been doing away with ports slowly but surely for a while now. There are no more ports of any kind on the new Macbooks, save for the lone USB-C port. They even cut out proprietary ports like firewire, and thunderbolt years ago. firewire ports were one of the only good things about a MAC. You could connect to MACs easily by using a firewire cable, and booting one of them into target mode. This allowed you to see the other MAC as an external hard drive, allowing for easy and quick transferring of files between machines. Well that is no longer an option.

Apple wants to make their machines as light as possible. They want to turn their computers into paperweights. Making the computer lighter and thinner is a good thing, but not at the expense of functionality and upgradeability.

The way USB works is that is has a type and version. The version refers to the speed and functionality, while the type references the physical specification of the cable. The USB-C port is the newest in the latest specification. The little port has a larger throughput (10 GPS) than the older USB versions. The type-C also offers higher power output (20 V, 100 W, 5A), and bidirectional power direction.

The USB 3.1 can allow a user to charge their laptop’s power through the USB. It’s also backwards compatible with previous versions like 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0. The new Macbooks are all coming out with just the one USB-C 3.1 port. I am sure it won’t be long before even the lone USB port is done away with. So Apple is aiming for you to be able to use one single port to do everything. This sounds good in theory. Less wires, less room, easier to carry around, but it becomes very problematic later on. Let me explain.

Let’s say that you want to charge your laptop and Iphone at the same time? Or perhaps you want to charge an Ipod, and Iphone at the same time? Or even just charge more than one device at once. You couldn’t even connect an external mouse while charging your laptop unless you got a hub. Imagine the fits that Apple users are going to throw once they find out that they can’t connect more than one device at a time. I am sure they’ll keep giving their money to Apple of course. I predict a surge of Applecare orders.

This is why I love PCs. However I don’t love Windows. People think that just because you are a PC guy, that must mean you love and adore Windows. Just the opposite is true. I hate Windows, but love the freedom, functionality and customization that a PC provides.

With a PC, I can upgrade RAM effortlessly. I can use a third party device/driver, and connect multiple devices at once. I can swap out hard drives without having to dismantle the entire machine, or pay 200 bucks to Applecare. You can’t do any of that with a MAC. You can even ditch Windows and run Linux on a PC if you choose. You can also run OS X on a PC, by building a hackintosh. I’ll talk more about that in a later article.

I don’t like to be denied my freedom, especially on my own computer. I want to be able to do what I want, when I want, and how I want with my laptop. You can’t do that on an Apple. As a matter of fact you can’t do anything on an Apple anymore save for browsing the internet, and turning the machine on and off. I am sure at some point Apple will take that away from you too. What’s next Apple? Doing away with rebooting? How about removing the system preferences to make the core lighter?

No matter what innovative technologies the future brings us, Apple will continue to remove essential functionalities and customizations from their machines. Do yourself a favor, and stop giving Cupertino your money. Stop paying Apple to make your life more difficult. Apple just doesn't get it, and more than likely never will