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One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers. You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks. Pr
by kevinherron 10mo ago
One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers.
You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks.
Probably 50% right off the bat because you chose a keyboard with or without a numpad.
Another huge chunk because you chose the wrong screen (Retina resolution? Low resolution? Refresh rate?)
Too bad, because I want this. Or at least the version of it I have in my head :)
- miningape 10mo agoApple / macbooks seem to be doing fine
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- chungy 10mo agoThe blog is premised on the idea that Apple and MacBook are not doing fine.
- rowanG077 10mo agoThe reason of course being the awful software, not the hardware options. He makes that abundantly clear in the text.
- miningape 10mo agoYou missed my point, the original comment is stating that the market for such a device doesn't exist because developers are too finicky and customisation focussed. As a counter example - look at macbooks which are about as un-customisable as they come, but a large portion of developers use them. Meaning the market exists even if it's currently dominated by Apple (which as you/the post points out is slipping)
- prmoustache 10mo agoNot everybody use/choose macbook though. Having said that I do believe that many brands have way too mamy SKU and I widh they would be more opinionated on what they believe is better for their customers while maintaining clear and strong ethics (reliability should be #priority)
- miningape 10mo agoI don't recall saying everybody?
- tensegrist 10mo agothat they're not doing fine software-wise
- naruhodo 10mo agoAnd nobody else is doing better software wise because Apple is secretive about how to program the hardware. Asahi is not sufficient.
- breve 10mo agoFollow the Framework model. Make the hardware user configurable, maintainable, and upgradable.