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What makes Apple valuable is precisely its full vertical integration. Nobody else does it at that scale except maybe Sony for consoles and Microsoft but both do
by utopiah 1mo ago
What makes Apple valuable is precisely its full vertical integration. Nobody else does it at that scale except maybe Sony for consoles and Microsoft but both don't have the same usage coverage and thus integration.
It wouldn't be economically rational for Apple to bring down its own moat.
- deanishe 1mo agoApple isn't Sony. They make an arm and a leg on their hardware. When they switched to x86, it didn't take long for them to release Boot Camp, so they could take Windows users' money, too.
- esskay 1mo agoThey also make an arm and a leg on services, which is why its not in their interest to make it so you cant use them.
- xnickb 1mo agoIt's not like users will just stop using the services. Rather Linux users will start considering MacBook as a potential laptop to buy. How could that possibly disrupt their Software/Services infra?
- esskay 1mo agoOf course they will. Why would you pay for icloud storage you cant use?
- xnickb 1mo agoThat statement is true for the users that both bought and didn't buy a Macbook (with Linux support). The difference is, the one who bought has paid money for the Macbook. I am not an Apple user. Do you _have_ to pay for iCloud if you buy the laptop? I don't think so.
- coldtea 1mo agoWindows dual boot meant millions of potential switchers, if not for anything else, as a list item to tell them "you could still dual boot". Asahi-on-Mac would bring in irrelevant numbers for a company of Apple's size.
- Melatonic 1mo agoThey could also dual boot windows for Arm. Just like before. Assuming Apple did the boot camp thing again
- worldsavior 1mo agoPeople whom want Linux on Macs obviously already don't want to be put into Apple's ecosystem.
- utopiah 1mo agoI don't have numbers on that but I bet purchase of brand new MacOS compatible devices is 99% or more from people who already have at least one or more other Apple devices. Sure they are probably thousands if not millions of (in the positive sense) nerds and geeks posting on HN about buying a Mac first hand, not second hand, solely to put Linux on it but even then would be a drop in the ocean compared to the remained sales. Still if you have numbers on that I'd love to be wrong about it.