One small one that probably a very small percentage of the mac population used, was the ability to adjust the dock into the bottom right corner, instead of the middle of the screen. Are they so adamant that all MacOS's on every device look the same, so that they can be instantly recognized in every starbucks on the planet as an Apple product, and a Apple Macintosh OS, that they no longer allow the dock to be moved 3 inches to the right. So the new configuration file that dictates this behavior, isnt editable by a normal user, even on that has root privileges. Why? I paid over 3 thousand dollars for a MacBook Pro, I would like to make at least minor adjustments as I see fit. I feel like this is the same as buying house, and then being told by the bank in which you financed with, that you aren't allowed to paint any of the walls in the house.
Another from the latest update is the is that they dropped support for pptp vpn's. This is ridiculous, of course pptp is an old protocol, and it isn't the most secure on the block, but it sure does help when your ISP is trying to inspect your traffic and limit bandwidth to certain applications, or if you're a Time Warner Cable (Now Spectrum) customer, and their plant is extra crappy, and the transport sucks. As soon as you establish a simple pptp vpn connection, boom your speeds and throughput are back to being what you paid for. Due to the fact that they dropped pptp support, I literally had to change my broadband provider, which worked out for the best. New Wave cable had just come to my area a few weeks prior, and offered a faster speed at a lower price with 10x the reliability eliminating my need for a pptp vpn altogether. I would have been really upset if TWC/Spectrum remained my only option as I would probably spend lots of money tethering my phone in order to get reliable internet without the VPN.
Anyway grew up using Apple products, from a very early age. My father was a die hard Apple fan, he still do this day maintains a collection of late 80's and 90's Apple equipment. For those of you that know the story of Steve Jobs, he also has a Next NextStep PC. This is why it is so frustrating to me. Coming from a time when Apple was the "Think Different" company that had allowed their users to make their computer their own, to a company that now makes computers that make you their own. Conform or die..
Enclosed are a few photos of my collection, so you know I am not fibbing when I say im an old school Apple user. However I am no longer a fan boy. While I still can't bring myself to not purchase Apple hardware, I am seriously contemplating something different for my next laptop. I come from a professional Linux administration background, and I use Fedora workstation everyday, while maintaining Red Hat servers. If any of you out there in internet land actually read this, and would like to give me suggestions on hardware that is comparable to a MacBook Pro, please chime in. The last 2 MBP's that I have owned have lasted 7+ years, and still been able to display up to date graphics, and run largely bloated and complex software packages, years after my initial purchase. I do not like buying new PC's every couple of years, I prefer that they last a little bit longer. I am not a gamer so I do not demand cutting edge graphics all the time, which might have something to do with the longevity compared to some gamers out there.
A few photos from the collection of old Apple hardware. My original Apple Newton Message pad from 1992 (The original iPad if you will) and a Duo Dock docking station, for my duo 210 laptop. This setup was commonly seen in the background of many Seinfeld episodes, in Seinfeld's apartment. Over the years I had several LC's, a quadra, the duo dock setup, followed by an original Bondi Blue iMac, then a G4 Cube, a power book G3, and a G4 titanium, a black macbook, a MacBook Pro 2007, then onto a MBP 2015 with retina display. Of course the original Newton message pad 100 with 110 board upgrade, while my father had a 120. I had one iPhone once, a 3G then I left it for a Google Android Nexus 1, and remained on Android ever since.
Newton 100 message pad
Duo Dock box and a few others lingering around in Dads basement
The boxes for the Newton 100 and 120
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