> "if you needed a 28-core computer with 1.5TB of RAM, would you really be quibbling on the price" Yes - when you need a few thousand of these to render your S

> "if you needed a 28-core computer with 1.5TB of RAM, would you really be quibbling on the price" Yes - when you need a few thousand of these to render your SFX, you shop around for alternatives. Then some startup that recently built a cloud render farm for this exact use case will save you the CapEx, give you a manageable OpEx and prove this Op-Ed wrong. SFX studios are legendary for hiring and firing elastically, you think they care about Apple hardware lock-in? Also, if you're a software business built on Apple, do some research - they'll fuck you over in a heartbeat. Maybe they'll block you on the Mac Store for using a private API [1], or retroactively apply a bogus rule [2] if they want to compete with you. Control your destiny by moving off an exclusive-Apple strategy [1]: https://m.slashdot.org/story/362994 https://m.slashdot.org/story/362994 [2]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/6/5/17430532/apple-app-store-rules-valve-steam-link-game-streaming https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...