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How on earth does this make "business sense"? You can't sell $10,000 Mac Pros and $6,000 displays with a neutered operating system. Nobody is buying the 16" Ma
by ogre_codes 6y ago
How on earth does this make "business sense"?
You can't sell $10,000 Mac Pros and $6,000 displays with a neutered operating system. Nobody is buying the 16" MacBook Pro if they can only buy apps in the App Store. Overnight they would lose pretty much every (non-iOS) developer, most video editors, every podcaster and audio engineer, most photographers, every single scientist, most engineers, mathematicians, and many artists...
That would be an absolutely fantastic pitch in a management meeting. Who is left, accountants... teachers? A few schools?
Not only would this be a massive hit to the Mac... likely lethal, it would also be a massive blow to iOS. Because much like every other developer on the planet iOS developers lean heavily on tools which cannot ever be found in the App Store like git, Python, Ruby (required for CocoaPods), and a million other Unix tools.
This has to be one of the most bone-headed, yet commonly repeated bits of anti-Mac nonsense out there.
- amelius 6y agoYou seem to be assuming that everything which makes business sense is also good for the customer.
- ogre_codes 6y agoThere is zero reason Apple would do what you suggest. You haven’t provided one, you just assume if you utter the phrase “Business Sense” enough that people will agree with you. shrug There is zero sense or logic in these assertions, business or otherwise. It’s baseless nonsense.