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IMO, it's just counter to what Apple aspires MacOS to be. If they would do it all over again, I would bet that they would have wanted to make MacOS be like iOS
by arvinsim 2y ago
IMO, it's just counter to what Apple aspires MacOS to be.
If they would do it all over again, I would bet that they would have wanted to make MacOS be like iOS.
- Lio 2y agoI’m not sure. Back in the day Apple marketed macOS as a serious Unix system for scientists and engineers boasting about NASA’s use of it. I think if Apple aspired to lockdown general purpose computing they would push the ipad pro range with more models and slowly kill off the Mac but they’re not doing that.
- throw0101a 2y ago> Back in the day Apple marketed macOS as a serious Unix system for scientists and engineers boasting about NASA’s use of it. They still jump through the necessary hoops to be certified as UNIX® with each macOS release: * https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
- robxorb 2y ago> IMO, it's just counter to what Apple aspires MacOS to be. Every OS wants to be attractive to developers. Apple has a long history of underdelivering this core proposition. To me it's an odd situation to reason about - look at Apple's dev conferences and then look at what it's like on the ground in dev's reality.