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How do you know they weren't gifted it, or bought it used, or that it's some older hardware revision? Wanting to work on software for macOS doesn't automatical

• scarface74 4y ago
  And have you seen the prices of even used ARM Macs that by definition aren’t more than two years old?
  • 0ct4via 4y ago
    Did GP claim to be on Apple Silicon? No? Stop assuming. That aside, if GP did run an Apple Silicon machine, there's also the market to buy used, and buy lower-spec models like the base-spec Mac Mini or MacBook Air. Once again, these aren't $3000 machines, and you don't know whether the machine they use was gifted, loaned, used, a work machine, etc. -- although the decided choice by their own admission, and their profile, suggests cost wasn't a factor for them. Do you have a point, or are you just looking to argue? The response was in your incredulous "Yet you can afford to buy a Mac?" accusation to GP -- which is loaded with baseless assumptions. I reasonably pointed out any ways someone could own a Mac without significant or any cost to themselves. Nobody said anything about it being the most modern or powerful machine, all GP said was that they want to create FOSS apps for Mac, and didn't agree with paying the $99/yr Developer program fee for signing apps as an "authorised developer."
    • scarface74 4y ago
      Then don’t pay the $99 fee and tell the users they have to right click to run it.