Why 1984 won't be like "1984." And 2021 will.

Macs are cool and futuristic. Still love 'em. But I'm starting to think it’s like an Eldorado Cadillac with fins. That’s cool and futuristic too. But despite the fins, it’s not really a rocket ship. You can’t fly to the Moon on an Eldorado Cadillac. It’s just futuristic on the outside. In a similar fashion, Macs (iPhones, iPads, iEtc.) are just bursting with elegant, world-of-tomorrow industrial design, most of it stolen from Braun, the rest from the Jetsons. On the inside, Macs are old-school, anal, counterintuitive, authoritarian control-freaks. It's like a Hitler Youth school crossing guard blowing his whistle and shouting, "Hey! You can't cross the street there! Go back to the curb and cross between the lines!" My main gripe being Apple file management. I'll single out iPhones. Photo files are the worst. On a f**king Android phone, you plug it into your computer, the device icon appears on your desktop, click, you navigate to the photo file, then drag the photos you want onto your desktop. Create a folder where you want, and put the photos in the folder. Then put the folder where you want! Simple.  iPhone? TWEET! No! Go back to the curb, user!” Plug the iPhone into your Mac. An icon appears. But it’s a meaningless black box. And you can’t even open that box. The box is locked and there’s no key. So, there’s no way to drag-and-drop my files? No, sir. There is not. So how do I get to my files? Ah. Each variety is a mystery of its own. OK, I’ll be specific. How do I manage my photo files? Can I drag them onto my desktop? No, sir. I believe I have mentioned that. “Dragging and dropping.” That is not the Mac way. So how do I do it? Well, sir. Connect your iPhone to your Mac with the approved Apple Lightning USB cable. Then go to Photos, which is the designated and approved Apple photography file management application. The icon resembles a pretty flower of many colors. Click on that. You may then access your photography files in the manner in which Apple intended. We will tell you where to store those snapshots. (Not the actual files, of course. Such knowledge is forbidden to you.) We strongly suggest you back up your photography files on iCloud. (Actually it’s not a suggestion.) We control the horizontal. We control the vertical. It’s as simple as playing a game of Twister and Limbo simultaneously while also working out a calculus problem. If that’s too much for your primitive intellect, ImageCapture is slightly easier. Does that answer your question, sir? No, but you blindly jump into it. Before long, iPhone is screaming at you. No more storage space! iCloud is screaming at you. No more storage space! With the cringing terror of a viciously caned British schoolboy, you instantly obey, and fearfully start dragging photos from your iPhone to your Mac hard drive. Can you do it in batches? No, sir. You can’t. One file at a time. That also is the Apple way. Ah. After an hour or two, you’ve finally cleared off a modicum storage space on your iPhone. But not for long. iCloud quickly restores all the deleted photos to your iPhone drive. Once again, your iPhone screams. No more storage space! You can always turn off the iCloud back up. Is there a toggle switch to quickly do that? Is there … I assume you’re joking, sir. But no, there is not. You can do it. There is a way. It’s no more complicated than programming a quantum computer while playing Jenga while holding a boiling fondu pot beneath your knees. Might I recommend the purchase of additional iCloud storage space?