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Amusingly, I've read that Apple (internally) frequently uses Anker cables.

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stordoff 6y ago
I've seen that both be suggested _and_ denied on Hacker News, so I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, but I doubt it's routine practice.
grishka 6y ago
Understandable, because their own ones fall apart so often from normal use.
mhh__ 6y ago
I also read something along the lines of that they have do some EDA work either on windows or on special mac builds of the tools. Might be just gossip keep in mind, not that it matters (beyond ones religious devotion to mac)
- exged 6y ago
  That seems pretty likely. Most (non-software) engineering disciplines have a ton of Windows-only GUI software.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  https://betanews.com/2014/09/26/apple-tests-the-iphone-6s-durability-using-windows-xp/ https://betanews.com/2014/09/26/apple-tests-the-iphone-6s-du.... A lot of the EDA work is of course done on Windows and Linux.
- gchadwick 6y ago
  I suspect they'll do what many large companies do, have a server farm that has all the tools on and have engineers remotely use them from a personal machine. The server farm will be running Linux and they can use Macs as the personal machines. Ultimately you often need a setup something like this as EDA vendors can have various rules to follow about where the binaries are kept. For implementation engineers there may be onerous terms around access to the process library files which are easier to deal with if the libraries plus the tools that use them don't go near the engineer's personal machine. Plus an engineer may want to spin up multiple instances of tool (very common for simulation for instance) so you want easy access to a cluster for this purpose.
- donavanm 6y ago
  When I worked there 10 years ago all the EDA/VLSI/etc was running on rhel/centos. As you’d expect because that’s what all of the EDA vendors support, Source, me. My team built managed and ran the in house compute and storage for all of that work on the portable/xserve/desktop/monitor hardware.
saagarjha 6y ago
Apple provides Belkin USB-C to Gigabit ethernet adapters because they don't make their own. Never saw an Anker cable, but perhaps they provide them somewhere.

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I've seen that both be suggested _and_ denied on Hacker News, so I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, but I doubt it's routine practice.

grishka 6y ago

Understandable, because their own ones fall apart so often from normal use.

mhh__ 6y ago

I also read something along the lines of that they have do some EDA work either on windows or on special mac builds of the tools. Might be just gossip keep in mind, not that it matters (beyond ones religious devotion to mac)

exged 6y ago
That seems pretty likely. Most (non-software) engineering disciplines have a ton of Windows-only GUI software.
saagarjha 6y ago
https://betanews.com/2014/09/26/apple-tests-the-iphone-6s-durability-using-windows-xp/ https://betanews.com/2014/09/26/apple-tests-the-iphone-6s-du.... A lot of the EDA work is of course done on Windows and Linux.
gchadwick 6y ago
I suspect they'll do what many large companies do, have a server farm that has all the tools on and have engineers remotely use them from a personal machine. The server farm will be running Linux and they can use Macs as the personal machines. Ultimately you often need a setup something like this as EDA vendors can have various rules to follow about where the binaries are kept. For implementation engineers there may be onerous terms around access to the process library files which are easier to deal with if the libraries plus the tools that use them don't go near the engineer's personal machine. Plus an engineer may want to spin up multiple instances of tool (very common for simulation for instance) so you want easy access to a cluster for this purpose.
donavanm 6y ago
When I worked there 10 years ago all the EDA/VLSI/etc was running on rhel/centos. As you’d expect because that’s what all of the EDA vendors support, Source, me. My team built managed and ran the in house compute and storage for all of that work on the portable/xserve/desktop/monitor hardware.

saagarjha 6y ago

Apple provides Belkin USB-C to Gigabit ethernet adapters because they don't make their own. Never saw an Anker cable, but perhaps they provide them somewhere.