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Apple should embrace this if the project is in need of reference materials. Apple is a hardware company primarily, so if someone buys their hardware because it
by Sunspark 3y ago
Apple should embrace this if the project is in need of reference materials.
Apple is a hardware company primarily, so if someone buys their hardware because it will be compatible with an OS they may like more, that's still a sale for Apple. No funds are lost, because MacOS doesn't charge for a new install on Apple hardware.
- palata 3y agoI really love the project, but I would guess that Apple just doesn't care because it's not bringing enough profit for them to care.
- overstay8930 3y agoApple does not want to be a hardware company, in fact when they sell lots of hardware their stock price goes down. If they can't charge a monthly fee for it, they're not doing it.
- Juicyy 3y agoOnly 20-25% of Apple's revenue is services. about 50% is iPhone about 8% for Mac and 8% for iPad. They're a hardware company.
- threeseed 3y agoApple has always been a hardware and software company. Nobody is buying the iPad or iPhone because it has better specs. Most don't even know how much memory they have. It's because of the OS, apps, ecosystem etc.
- overstay8930 3y agoI didn’t say they’re not a hardware company, I said they don’t want to be one because it makes shareholders very uneasy about the stability of the company.
- pjmlp 3y agoApple sells a complete experience, like everyone else was doing before IBM lost ownernship of the PC. Even UNIX, CP/M and MSX vendors, only supported their own version of it, on their own hardware.