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I really liked this last bit given the reaction to the MBP: >I’m also intrigued to see how far they are prepared to go with this. They already annoyed and inco
by IBM 10y ago
I really liked this last bit given the reaction to the MBP:
>I’m also intrigued to see how far they are prepared to go with this. They already annoyed and inconvenienced a lot of people with the Samba and GCC removal. Having wooed so many developers to the Mac in the last decade, are they really prepared to throw away all that goodwill by shipping obsolete tools and making it a pain in the ass to upgrade them?
Seems like developers have been overstating their importance to Apple forever.
- deong 10y agoAlso, it's hard to argue that an ancient version of bash shipping in 2016 is driving away developers when they've shipped an ancient version of bash forever, and developers were lining up for Macs during most of that time. If anything, I think Apple's increased focus on iOS and the rest of the industry finally making really good stuff would be a more significant factor if Apple starts to bleed developers.
- pjmlp 10y ago> Seems like developers have been overstating their importance to Apple forever. Apple cares about developers, those that love and enjoy writing applications for Apple OSes. The ones that were there in the good and bad days. Those that jumped into Apple OS just when they coincidently had a UNIX with a pretty UI because they choose not to get Be instead, not so much.
- jsz0 10y agoThe scenario the author outlined 4 years ago was one possible outcome but it turns out he was wrong. Instead projects like homebrew have flourished and it's now easier than ever to get fresh packages for popular GPL software on macOS.