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Absolute disaster, this platform. The opacity and lack of early availability for development made for a really ugly adoption experience. I feel that people shou
by jbirer 6y ago
Absolute disaster, this platform. The opacity and lack of early availability for development made for a really ugly adoption experience. I feel that people should not encourage this and vote with their money in the DevOps / Dev sector to discourage other companies from pulling the same stunt.
- arvindamirtaa 6y agoLack of early availability? They sold $500 dev units specifically for this purpose.
- jbirer 6y agoThey were not available for purchase by everyone.
- ogre_codes 6y agoOther than being unavailable outside the US, I'm pretty sure everyone who ordered one received it. Apple also donated at least a few of them to OSS projects.
- angulardragon03 6y agoThey were available outside of the US, too.
- scoopdewoop 6y agoIf they were available for purchase to non-developers, how would that be early availability? That would just be a release.
- wmf 6y agoUnfortunately the dev kits were lacking virtualization that Docker needs so they've had to do this port in the last month.
- ehutch79 6y agoDocker or M1 macs?
- jbirer 6y agoThe M1 Macs. Docker is awesome.
- ehutch79 6y agoHow do you think this transition has gone badly? For the average, normal human, they won't notice which platform they're on. Only someone with a niche need will have any issues. and those issues are being fixed rapidly. While there are definitely gotchas and considerations, i've seen people say there will never be audio software on m1 in the next 2 years. there's already daws with m1 support and bridging for vsts being released. So, it's hard to buy into the idea this platform transition has been so horrible you'd abandon using macs.
- ogre_codes 6y agoThe expectation that a ~2 month old platform is going to perfectly replicate the functionality of 30+ year old platforms is absurd. Compared to the PPC->Intel transition, this is a cakewalk. Compared to Microsoft's (multiple attempts) to migrate to ARM, this is a true triumph.
- microtherion 6y agoIt's pretty good for a hardware platform. But I guess if you're a frontend developer, 2 months is enough for a new JavaScript framework to come out, become ubiquitous, get superseded, and get abandoned as legacy code.
- deergomoo 6y agoThey’re still selling Intel versions of every single Mac except the MacBook Air...