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The problem of Microsoft's failed attempt could be resumed in few points - They failed to provide a decent ecosystem - They wanted to carry on decades of lega
by WhoCaresLies 6y ago
The problem of Microsoft's failed attempt could be resumed in few points
- They failed to provide a decent ecosystem
- They wanted to carry on decades of legacy bits
- They failed to provide fast hardware
- All that resulted in a shy attempt with poor performance
Apple didn't have all these issues, because it is in their culture, to provide software that works, without much bloat and with great hardware
Them forbidding JIT for desktop applications helped them in the perf part, everything feels snappy, because nothing needs to be recompiled each startup
- ENOTTY 6y ago> Apple didn't have all these issues, because it is in their culture, to provide software that works, without much bloat and with great hardware It's funny you write this when the linked article specifically calls out Apple's software for a few "warts" and even agrees with Moorhead's and Gruber's take that the software is not yet fully baked.
- WhoCaresLies 6y agoNothing is perfect, of course!