> What's the use case I think the answer is that it's a uniform piece of desktop hardware with a huge installed base. Apple's market share in the desktop spac

> What's the use case I think the answer is that it's a uniform piece of desktop hardware with a huge installed base. Apple's market share in the desktop space may be small compared to PC, but the PC ecosystem is heterogeneous, so the economics of supporting a large fraction of PCs is disadvantageous for open source maintenance. If support for linux and other open source OSes on apple desktop hardware becomes a thing, it may well quickly become the best-supported and best-tested hardware of all, which would be a huge leap forward for open source on the desktop. Besides: The relationship between Intel and open source is not exactly a love affair either. Maybe Apple will be nicer to open source, or maybe the sheer fact that there is a second hardware player in the open source desktop space will be a shift in competitive dynamics that's advantageous to open source.