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Because they're resting on their laurels. It's dangerous to coast the way they are.

• blunte 10y ago
  Exactly. And it seems every king of the mountain makes this mistake. Meanwhile, Microsoft, who many of us shunned for years because of them doing exactly this, is turning around and starting to show promise. I do predict a visible shift of developers from Apple to MS - not to do Windows development, but to do general development on a Windows device... and possibly in a Linux shell within Windows.
  • astrodust 10y ago
    Until they clean up Windows wholesale, top to bottom, there's no way it will ever be the same experience. There's just so many layers of abject garbage in Windows. These are there for legacy reasons, but they're also a giant hassle if you're trying to work as a developer. Some Linux distributions are rough around the edges, but few of them are as tired and worn out as Windows is. macOS at least burns off the underbrush once in a while. There's few 32-bit apps in the wild now, most everyone's gone 64-bit. PowerPC is history. The driver landscape, while significantly more limited than Windows, isn't filled with broken garbage and junk that works on Windows 7 but not 10 or vice-versa. Microsoft's strength is legacy support: Applications from fifteen, even twenty years ago still run. This is also their biggest problem.