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>But my wife loves the look and feel of Mac OS, and has just grown frustrated with a few things lately that are obviously just restricting users to squeeze them to more expensive products or locking them in to Apple's ecosystem.

So glad this is catching on. Although I was surprised this coming from Mac and not iPhone. What is it with Mac that caused the frustration?

On iPhone, it is clear everything is about pushing for services revenue.



I haven't looked into it too deeply, but she has one of the less expensive netbook-type models and it appears to raise errors quite frequently because she should buy more iCloud space even though she has space on the local disk.

She's also found it increasingly hard to find config settings the last few years.


I'd recommend to disable iCloud for the offending apps in System Preferences -> Apple ID -> iCloud. I like macOS, but I don't like iCloud at all.


Wife loves her iPhone and hates the Mac. Sounds familiar...




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