depend on who you talk to , the decade is either ending tonight or a year from now . The Macalope ’s not going to weigh in on whether or not a tenner operate from 0 to 9 or 1 to 10 . This is a technology column , he does n’t get into religion .
Regardless , a lot of people are looking back on the decade of Apple news and taking stock of what were the big events and products of the last ten years that are at least an elapsed decade whether or not they are a canonic decade .
Which , if The Macalope knows his language , is a decade that you could force out out of a shank . Just tally his notes and … yes , it can be any carom . Military , shirt , confetti , what have you .
What were we talking about ?
Oh , right . The last tenner of Apple .
We sure as shooting generate into a fortune of dumb arguments , did n’t we ? Is securities industry share the most important thing ever or is it of some kind of uber - importance that can not be appraise by our cosmos ’s scientific discipline ? Is the iPad a data processor or just a sandwich ? How big of a flop is the Apple Watch ? And how devastating are those annual iPhone production cuts that happen every twelvemonth after the big launching but , ZOMG , this year they ’re cutting production ? !
By the way , that is the last time The Macalope is lawfully let to utilize “ ZOMG ” . Yep , it ’s been deprecated as of 2020 . Some would say as of 2012 . Anyway , it had a beneficial run .
Here ’s a question from the last 10 years that no one play along up on : did anyone ever getwrist genus Cancer from the Apple Watch ? That ’s one The Macalope thinks about from time to time . At least Apple eventually ship the cancer - causing Apple Watch after“disappearing ” for a while in mid-2014by fail to transport something in the wearables category that was immensely important in the mid-2010s but now that Apple owns it , no one talks about it anymore .
The Macalope could go on and on about this . Seriously , he even has an interpretive dance about all the dense thing the great unwashed said about Apple in the 2010s . It was very well reviewed in Dumb Dance Quarterly .
But he does n’t want to will the class and the X on such a sour tone . Instead , in the sprightliness of contact across the aisle , he ’d care to point tothis pieceby Antonio Villas - Boas at none other than Business Insider where Villas - Boas lays out his reason for using Android and Windows without consecrate the crimes of take that it must be so for everyone if it is so for him and that Apple can do no good .
for certain , he drops a soupçon of “ surround garden”-style citation , but it ’s not like The Macalope does n’t habituate a garbage truck of “ cess pool of malware ” reference when talking about Android .
( The cess pool really is the worst kind of pool , is n’t it ? It ’s not even a contest . )
The Macalope does n’t care what platform mass choose . prefer the right one for you . There are very salutary reasons to use Android over iOS and Windows over the Mac . Villas - Boas values hardware selection , and that ’s a wholly valid reason to not use Apple merchandise . Just break seek to severalize us Apple platforms suck and the company is going out of business any day . Despite the ship’s company ’s ridiculous level of success in the 2010s , that did n’t encounter . Something to aspire to in the 2020s .
Not that The Macalope is saying that ’s a canonical decennium .
Just to be clear . The aroused one ’s not in the sack of Big Decade . Do n’t threaten The Macalope ’s children .
