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I'm terrified of Apple's strategy here. It's a clear message that the strategy of independent manufacturers and vendors is far less effective, at least in a mod
by Nomokis 6y ago
I'm terrified of Apple's strategy here. It's a clear message that the strategy of independent manufacturers and vendors is far less effective, at least in a modern context. We're going to see Apple eating up increasing amounts of the market, which is concerning when I particularly care about freedom and Apple is all too eager to lock everything down. We're going to see other companies increasingly look to vertical integration on a scale that we haven't seen in decades. In 50 years, there might not even be any independent manufacturers anymore. Either you buy in to the Apple stack or whoever owns the only other competing stack, if one exists. We'll get to reminisce about the good old days when we could still choose which GPU/CPU/MB/RAM/etc to buy from which manufacturer for the price that we prefer.
- jtsiskin 6y agoYes, I wonder what it would take for a open platform to be able to match the quality and interconnectivity of Apple. Is there any structure that would make this possible?
- EricE 6y ago"Is there any structure that would make this possible?" Lots of hard work and consensus. Have fun with that. Apple can scratch all the itches - even the boring ones - because they are paying the bills. Open Source's achilles heal. Less than 1% do 99% of the work and if they don't....
- tatersolid 6y agoBased on the history of “Linux on the desktop”: no There’s tons of boring work required to make a polished product (documentation, compatibility work, UX design and testing, global design consistency, etc.) that you simply have to pay people to get done.