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Along the same lines, who writes software for the Any desktop these days? What was the last piece of software you paid for that ran on your desktop? v.s. how
by icefox 17y ago
Along the same lines, who writes software for the Any desktop these days? What was the last piece of software you paid for that ran on your desktop? v.s. how many times have you given out your CC on the web?
All things being equal people will stay where they are. So when software moved to the web there wasn't any incentive to move OS's. The only shift I have seen is the shift to Apple where there is a hardware incentive. But even then they buy an Apple laptop and just run Safari.
Edit: and even for linux heads OS X is pretty nice. I get git, gcc, apache, a command shell, Qt, emacs, vim, bash, webkit, etc. Even valgrind is on OS X now. Given that the software is close enough then looking at the hardware it caused me to get a mac laptop.
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