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What "online marketing?" I have only seen them mention the very real OS level support for virtual machines. That is available today and works very well. I ha

What "online marketing?" I have only seen them mention the very real OS level support for virtual machines. That is available today and works very well. I have not seen any marketing referring to bootable alternate OSes. I would be interested in a link to such material.

webmobdev 5y ago
Apple does "Shill Marketing" on online / social media platforms. "Someone who works for a business but pretends not to in order to seem like a reliable source is a shill. Shill marketing is the act of using a shill to try and convince the public that a product is worth buying ... The concept of shill marketing is simple. People tend to feel more comfortable with a product or service if they know someone else who has a good experience with it. If someone who isn't associated with the company tells you how good it is, the claim will probably be more convincing than if it came from the company spokesman ... Oftentimes, multiple shills work together, reinforcing each other's story and engaging in a conversation about how great the product is. ( https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-shill-marketing.htm https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-shill-marketing.htm ). You are absolutely right that the M1 supports running other OSes through virtualisation. And Apple has promoted that fact and even suggested that as the new "Apple way" of running alternate OSes on the M1. Obviously many are unhappy about this fact, as older Intel based Mac even had official support for running Windows and could run many other OSes. Thus, Apple's online campaigns for M1 seek to counter the really negative fact that the M1 is a locked down system where you can't really meaningfully replace macOS with another OS (run another full featured OS on the bare machine, and not with virtualisation). They also seek to convince ignorant users into believing that the M1 fully supports Linux and other OS (or that it will in the very near future), which is plain bullshit because it is not in Apple's interest to do so. I am willing to bet that once the M1 sales reach a particular threshold, Apple will confidently lock the bootloader of the M1 - that's the only major differeciator between the iPhone / iPad and the M1.

webmobdev 5y ago

Apple does "Shill Marketing" on online / social media platforms. "Someone who works for a business but pretends not to in order to seem like a reliable source is a shill. Shill marketing is the act of using a shill to try and convince the public that a product is worth buying ... The concept of shill marketing is simple. People tend to feel more comfortable with a product or service if they know someone else who has a good experience with it. If someone who isn't associated with the company tells you how good it is, the claim will probably be more convincing than if it came from the company spokesman ... Oftentimes, multiple shills work together, reinforcing each other's story and engaging in a conversation about how great the product is. ( https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-shill-marketing.htm https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-shill-marketing.htm ). You are absolutely right that the M1 supports running other OSes through virtualisation. And Apple has promoted that fact and even suggested that as the new "Apple way" of running alternate OSes on the M1. Obviously many are unhappy about this fact, as older Intel based Mac even had official support for running Windows and could run many other OSes. Thus, Apple's online campaigns for M1 seek to counter the really negative fact that the M1 is a locked down system where you can't really meaningfully replace macOS with another OS (run another full featured OS on the bare machine, and not with virtualisation). They also seek to convince ignorant users into believing that the M1 fully supports Linux and other OS (or that it will in the very near future), which is plain bullshit because it is not in Apple's interest to do so. I am willing to bet that once the M1 sales reach a particular threshold, Apple will confidently lock the bootloader of the M1 - that's the only major differeciator between the iPhone / iPad and the M1.