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They have some of your money, but they want more of it. Mac owners are more likely to buy iPads and iPhones and become embedded in the Apple ecosystem. That dr
by jzb 5y ago
They have some of your money, but they want more of it.
Mac owners are more likely to buy iPads and iPhones and become embedded in the Apple ecosystem. That draws people into the app stores, which Apple gets a cut of, and into Apple Music and Apple TV...
If they're very successful they get you to sign up for Apple Pay and the Apple Card and get a chunk of your spend for things entirely unrelated to Apple.
If they just sell you the hardware and you can easily run Linux on it, you might not run macOS and move further into their ecosystem.
- jzb 5y agoAlso - even if they only wanted your hardware money, if you run Linux on Apple hardware, there's less chance your next purchase will be Apple hardware. Linux is portable, macOS isn't (legally, easily -- Hackintoshes notwithstanding, but even those are going to go away when Apple ditches Intel hardware for good).
- DeathArrow 5y ago>Hackintoshes notwithstanding, but even those are going to go away when Apple ditches Intel hardware for good Maybe people will find a way to build ARM hackintoshes. :)