My thinking goes like this: I can borrow someone else’s phone if I need to make a call, but I want my Mac if I need to do any sort of deep thinking. This feeling of personalization runs deep in a desktop operating system. It’s much more than wallpaper, or color schemes. My Mac is loaded with software and utilities that I have written custom for my specific use. I’m not talking about general software development, but scripting, and automation which ease my everyday tasks.
This level of customization is nigh impossible on iOS devices, by design. Might sound like I’m being facetious or setting up a strawman argument. In fact, I believe this capability for deep customization is the crux of the division between the iPad-only and Mac loyalist camps.
Mac Users are a dying breed. I’ll be a Mac-User for life but it’s foolish to assume we Mac users have any weight on where computing goes from here. I can write an email from my wrist-computer and I’m fighting to keep long-form writing on a 15” laptop with a real keyboard. My days are numbered.
This was a great read.