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This is a facetious question if I ever saw one. Apple machines should be developer-oriented, the author is complaining that they've lost/given up on the plot fo

This is a facetious question if I ever saw one. Apple machines should be developer-oriented, the author is complaining that they've lost/given up on the plot for the power users who catapulted iOS to popularity by developing for it. If you are developing for Mac or iOS, use a Mac. If you've developing for the web, maybe a Mac. The thing is, you were complaining about the lack of an octocore, 8GB RAM chrome book, which is at odds with the purpose of a chromebook. You can develop web apps on a Mac. You can even SSH to a Mac or Linux box from your chrome book. The chromebook model is to provide the bare minimum a user needa to get into the Google ecosystem, so that the hardware is attainable for low-income users, and becomes a complete commodity for businesses. Nowhere in there do they account for power users; it's not part of their plan, and they don't need developers on their platform to succeed

diminish 14y ago
"The chromebook model is to provide the bare minimum a user needs to get into the Google ecosystem, so that the hardware is attainable for low-income users, and becomes a complete commodity for businesses" Could you point me where you get this if it is not your idea? In contrary, I always thought ChromeOS is the model where web is the app; and all you need is a web browser to do anything you want; which includes "development". As a developer, using Firefox/Firebug, Chrome Dev tools, Online editors/Ace to do everyday job, I am myself developing on a cloud IDE to do anything I want online. The question is, why can't I only use a browser,(then why not Chromebook) to do development? And what is facetious here?
- alanctgardner2 14y ago
  You're conflating this post, which is about Apple more or less mistreating developers, with Google's conscious decision to produce $200 ARM thin clients. They're not really the same; Apple still wants you to develop on their hardware, they more or less shackle you to it. Based on what you described your development stack is supported on Chromebooks. That's cool. Eclipse used to run on my 11" netbook as well, it doesn't mean it was a good way to develop, nor was it designed to be.

diminish 14y ago

"The chromebook model is to provide the bare minimum a user needs to get into the Google ecosystem, so that the hardware is attainable for low-income users, and becomes a complete commodity for businesses" Could you point me where you get this if it is not your idea? In contrary, I always thought ChromeOS is the model where web is the app; and all you need is a web browser to do anything you want; which includes "development". As a developer, using Firefox/Firebug, Chrome Dev tools, Online editors/Ace to do everyday job, I am myself developing on a cloud IDE to do anything I want online. The question is, why can't I only use a browser,(then why not Chromebook) to do development? And what is facetious here?

alanctgardner2 14y ago
You're conflating this post, which is about Apple more or less mistreating developers, with Google's conscious decision to produce $200 ARM thin clients. They're not really the same; Apple still wants you to develop on their hardware, they more or less shackle you to it. Based on what you described your development stack is supported on Chromebooks. That's cool. Eclipse used to run on my 11" netbook as well, it doesn't mean it was a good way to develop, nor was it designed to be.