I’ve been an Apple user for 40+ years, and I really don’t want to tally up my lifetime customer value to Apple. However, I don’t trust them for software which is supposed to support collaboration. Personally focused software, great OS, and beautiful hardware yes, collaboration, no.
I almost never work in an environment with 100% homogeneous hardware and OS. A large portion of my career has been working as a contractor or consultant. Each new client has a different stack of tools. Any tools for collaborative work need to be as cross-platform as possible. For many of my jobs the tools also need to work in all regions without VPN (no Google in China).
Even though I have a Mac, when a prospective job applicant sends a resume in Pages, it’s a disqualifier, because they don’t understand that Windows users can’t read that.
Until Freeform works on Windows and Android, it’s not collaborative, it’s a walled garden.
I almost never work in an environment with 100% homogeneous hardware and OS. A large portion of my career has been working as a contractor or consultant. Each new client has a different stack of tools. Any tools for collaborative work need to be as cross-platform as possible. For many of my jobs the tools also need to work in all regions without VPN (no Google in China).
Even though I have a Mac, when a prospective job applicant sends a resume in Pages, it’s a disqualifier, because they don’t understand that Windows users can’t read that.
Until Freeform works on Windows and Android, it’s not collaborative, it’s a walled garden.