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I wonder if Apple will embrace Linux as Microsoft have done. If they are still a 'hardware' company at heart then they will.
by jarym 6y ago
I wonder if Apple will embrace Linux as Microsoft have done. If they are still a 'hardware' company at heart then they will.
- ibraheemdev 6y agoI highly doubt it. Microsoft embraced Linux because they knew Windows couldn't compete in the developer OS space. MacOS on the other hand is built on Unix and is already a very popular OS for developers.
- TimTheTinker 6y agoLinux has been taking serious dev mindshare (and market share) from Apple for several years now. And I think Apple knows macOS can't compete with Linux as a development environment against browser, Linux, and cloud-based deployments. Witness how they made a point of demonstrating a Linux VM running on Apple silicon during the M1 introductory keynote, and how they continue to remove dev-oriented tooling, allowing third-party setups like homebrew to fill it in. It seems their goal is increasingly to focus on their end-user platform only, which for dev tooling means only focusing on XCode/etc. and not the Mac's capabilities for other deployment targets. ... which leaves an obvious gap for Linux to fill. In fact, given how large and capable Apple is these days, I think there's a good chance they'll put a bit more effort into helping Linux integration along (especially Linux in VMs on macOS -- that's probably the main plan at the moment). They realize they only stand to gain from such efforts.