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I’m not sure that many people want Windows badly enough they would get an Apple device and remove the original OS so they could run Windows. From my personal e

by rbanffy 8mo ago

I’m not sure that many people want Windows badly enough they would get an Apple device and remove the original OS so they could run Windows. From my personal experience, Widows users in general don’t mind Windows, but, definitely, nobody I have ever met finds it more desirable than macOS.

fidotron 8mo ago
The games industry remains a hotbed of people that vehemently hate Apple, even those that have never touched a Mac. Part of it historically was a sort of Visual Studio induced Stockholm Syndrome, where for a long time if you were doing C++ work that was the only sane way to go. There are some companies that even filter potential employees on this basis.
- dartharva 8mo ago
  Apple leaves gamers alone, it does not even attempt to be a nontrivial gaming platform and makes no promises. Why would gamers and gamedevs hate it? It just doesn't exist in their market.
  - xyzsparetimexyz 8mo ago
    Its a computer. People are gonna try and play computer games on it.
    - rbanffy 8mo ago
      Was Sony making their MIPS workstations when they introduced their MIPS-based PlayStation? Sounds like a nice distinction between work and play. ;-)
      - fidotron 8mo ago
        Curiously the Sega game Columns was licensed from the HP UX original.
  - fidotron 8mo ago
    From the noises that occur whenever you force a Windows loving gamedev to use a Mac the first major "problem" is mouse acceleration.
- iknowstuff 8mo ago
  Which companies?
  - rbanffy 8mo ago
    Sounds like a nice blacklist to have.
carlosjobim 8mo ago
Don't have to remove anything. This used to be possible on Macs with bootcamp as they called it.
- alwillis 8mo ago
  Bootcamp was a hedge when Apple was a lot less dominant than it is now. When Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel, it wasn’t clear that was going to work. Being able to boot into Windows was sort of an insurance policy that’s no longer necessary.
  - rbanffy 8mo ago
    It made migration from Windows to Mac easier. Now that Office can run in a browser and the Mac has first tier support for the desktop version, and a lot more of the usual software is delivered either as web applications or portable apps on top of a browser runtime, being able to boot Windows is a lot less relevant.

by rbanffy 8mo ago

fidotron 8mo ago

The games industry remains a hotbed of people that vehemently hate Apple, even those that have never touched a Mac. Part of it historically was a sort of Visual Studio induced Stockholm Syndrome, where for a long time if you were doing C++ work that was the only sane way to go. There are some companies that even filter potential employees on this basis.

dartharva 8mo ago
Apple leaves gamers alone, it does not even attempt to be a nontrivial gaming platform and makes no promises. Why would gamers and gamedevs hate it? It just doesn't exist in their market.
- xyzsparetimexyz 8mo ago
  Its a computer. People are gonna try and play computer games on it.
  - rbanffy 8mo ago
    Was Sony making their MIPS workstations when they introduced their MIPS-based PlayStation? Sounds like a nice distinction between work and play. ;-)
    - fidotron 8mo ago
      Curiously the Sega game Columns was licensed from the HP UX original.
- fidotron 8mo ago
  From the noises that occur whenever you force a Windows loving gamedev to use a Mac the first major "problem" is mouse acceleration.
iknowstuff 8mo ago
Which companies?
- rbanffy 8mo ago
  Sounds like a nice blacklist to have.

carlosjobim 8mo ago

Don't have to remove anything. This used to be possible on Macs with bootcamp as they called it.

alwillis 8mo ago
Bootcamp was a hedge when Apple was a lot less dominant than it is now. When Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel, it wasn’t clear that was going to work. Being able to boot into Windows was sort of an insurance policy that’s no longer necessary.
- rbanffy 8mo ago
  It made migration from Windows to Mac easier. Now that Office can run in a browser and the Mac has first tier support for the desktop version, and a lot more of the usual software is delivered either as web applications or portable apps on top of a browser runtime, being able to boot Windows is a lot less relevant.