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When all devs need is your software (xcode), but you are so popular they they buy your hardware anyway instead of looking at alternative platforms. Although I
by teekert 8y ago
When all devs need is your software (xcode), but you are so popular they they buy your hardware anyway instead of looking at alternative platforms.
Although I see the why, the how and the need, it is entirely synthetic. In a way Apple forces this incredible waste of hardware that is never seen and could easily be virtualized and time-shared (there are no technical limitations). It's really an opposite-of-green initiative. Although, perhaps the only real alternative would be everyone buying a mac mini and use it even less (in total), which would be even less green...
- yardie 8y agoAt its heart Apple is a hardware company and everything they do is to drive sales of hardware. An iOS developer is forced to have Apple hardware. They could charge for MacOS and they could charge for XCode. But they don’t because the cost of continued development of those applications is subsidized by hardware sales.
- egil 8y agoNot to mention that the "it just works" experience is much easier to provide when you control both software and hardware. No driver mess for the end user.