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I'll be interested in seeing how their new computers turn out - as they're turning away from commodity hardware, and going back to bespoke silicon for their CPU
by Tsiklon 6y ago
I'll be interested in seeing how their new computers turn out - as they're turning away from commodity hardware, and going back to bespoke silicon for their CPUs, it's like we're going back in time to the more heterogeneous Unix Workstation days.
- a-dub 6y agoit's going to be interesting. i think they captured a lot of the developer/systems market because most server infrastructure is x86-64 and folks can run the same vms/containers locally. i wonder how much of that they stand to lose by forcing those folks to maintain separate builds or use slow emulation. granted, a lot happens in higher level languages, but introducing a new supported cpu architecture is painful... there are always native libraries. i think a lot of apple's comeback, at least in the early days, was fueled by developers and systems people evangelizing them as the usable unix...