If you write a program that can run on a 386, you can run it easily on your brand-new octa-core Ryzen -- with a whole bunch of other stuff, more than if you had

If you write a program that can run on a 386, you can run it easily on your brand-new octa-core Ryzen -- with a whole bunch of other stuff, more than if you had left the program unoptimized. Similarly, if you build a system that unintelligent people can use, intelligent people have that much more brain power not used up fucking with the system. There are plenty of smart people who don't mind Apple forbidding them from running certain software: they're not interested in running that software in the first place, and it eliminates entire classes of malicious or undesirable software that they simply don't have to worry about. That's why many of the smartest people I know are all-in on the Apple ecosystem. See graph: NOOOOO! Muh user freedoms! ------ / \ -- -- / \ -- -- / \ / \ / \ Just buy / \ Just buy Apple ---- ---- Apple ---- ----