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Software and platform lockdown are a lot weaker than they were in the WinTel heyday. It’s a lot easier to go from macOS to Windows to Linux these days. There ar
by tambourine_man 6y ago
Software and platform lockdown are a lot weaker than they were in the WinTel heyday. It’s a lot easier to go from macOS to Windows to Linux these days. There are many exceptions of course, but I’d wager that market is not as big as you think.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoI think OPs point is that this is going to get a lot harder once macbooks become Apple Silicon only
- tambourine_man 6y agoSoftware has a lot more abstractions these days. Almost no one codes close to the ISA. I don’t think it’s as much of an issue as it was.
- pjmlp 6y agoOnly if ones lives in a POSIX CLI world of Web GUIs. That is not the market that Apple cares about, nor NeXT did that much, other to gain market share when things were looking dim.
- tambourine_man 6y agoMost of the world uses web apps. Huge and performance sensitive applications like Adobe, Maya, etc mostly already have their own UI rendering engine anyway. It’s a lot different from the Win32/x86 duopoly situation. Platforms have been mostly abstracted away.
- pjmlp 6y agoMost of the world is a bubble.
- tambourine_man 6y agoCare to elaborate? I don’t understand you meant by that.