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1) Take the dev market seriously again. Ship with stock Linux containers out of the box. Stop breaking Mach linker ABIs etc. 2) Durable version of the MacBook.
by crb002 8y ago
1) Take the dev market seriously again. Ship with stock Linux containers out of the box. Stop breaking Mach linker ABIs etc.
2) Durable version of the MacBook. Like you can pour sand over the keyboard, swap a cracked display by hand. Comes with a backup hard drive appliance.
3) Apple cloud. Wordpress/Shopify product, AWS S3 clone, AWS Lambda clone, AWS SQS clone, AWS RDS clone, Siri API. Make it all run on localhost too for edge and testing. Cross compile out of the box to Apple hosted GCP/Azure/AWS instances. Extend and embrace :)
- asteli 8y agoI'm not a software person so I can't speak to your other points, but for 2): I think you'd be surprised how repairable MacBooks are. The screens aren't hand replaceable but you basically need a couple of small Torx screwdrivers, maybe some tweezers, and about an hour if you're doing it for the first time. Not sure what you meant by backup HD appliance but Time Machine is hands down the best UX for any backup software I've used.
- saagarjha 8y agoI doubt any of these would happen soon (I’d say “ever”, but that’s a dangerous thing to say about a technology company). Apple might do a mild version of some of these: make their development tools better, have more durable computers, or improve iCloud. But I don’t see them becoming the next Microsoft.