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These days its very easy to get any flavor of Linux/Unix running in cloud at a very cheap price. Back in the day folks especially developer relied on Macs as a
by akshayB 10y ago
These days its very easy to get any flavor of Linux/Unix running in cloud at a very cheap price. Back in the day folks especially developer relied on Macs as a stable platform to work on but now that landscape has changed due to cloud. Meanwhile this transformation was happening Apple lost its focus and doing the right thing instead their bright idea was generate passive income by forcing people buying connectors.
I owned an old Mac for 7+ years it worked fine and finally I decided to get a new one. I was just amazed by amount of connectors I ended up buying.
- sbuk 10y agoYeah, that first iMac took the biscuit. No ADB or SCSI, Parallel or Serial ports, no floppy drives and that stupid mouse! But in time most most manufacturers turned to USB as it really was the obvious choice for the future. Heady days!