Tony Heupel committed and moved away from the Apple ecosystem, embracing a platform agnostic lifestyle wherever possible. Long story short, Tony and his family are back (mostly).
This is a very interesting read. Lots of detail on where the non-Apple universe fell short, and where Apple’s approach really does make a difference.
Yup, the grass is not always greener on the other side of the street.
Despite my recent frustrations with Apple’s executive direction, as of late, its still the best ecosystem for me and I’m fully invested in it. Apple has lots of room to grow in iOS, iCloud and many other areas of their legacy products. I just hope they keep the fire burning strong on these.
I like hearing from people who’ve actually tried the other things and have candid personal assessments to share.
It says a lot about a person when they tell you how excited they were that their watch had it’s OWN phone number.
This is one of the strengths of the ecosystem. Despite the usual mistaken wailing about a walled garden, you can use Apple devices AND other services (in this case Google’s) and get the best of both. Google’s to be commended, too, for generally excellent iOS apps.
Most of this seemed to be Android/Samsung/Google Play problems. There was little about the Mac side, which would be the nuts and bolts for a developer.
As a developer, who has done a lot of .NET work in my life, I gotta wonder why he wouldn’t want a Mac as his primary computer.
“I love the Surface Pro, Surface Book and Surface Studio ideas. And while I don’t hate Windows, it just makes more sense to use an OS that can support ALL the development I do—Linux and iOS.”
I’d interpret the above as stating he is using a Mac for development, as he can do Linux & iOS development.