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by whoops1122 3525 days ago
To me, its different philosophy, I never consider Apple very innovative technically. they have always been (even with jobs) more innovative on product strategy and marketing. Iphone wasnt the first of its kind, nor its Ipod. However, They have always choose the correct package for a stable technology that fits the mass.

Buying Iphone, Ipod, IMac, or air its more of a fashion statement than a Technical one, and coding does look cool on Mac, and time may be changing, but most people that i know who code on Apple product arent your typical computer science, nerds with no art back ground kind of coders.
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bluejekyll 3525 days ago
> Apple product arent your typical computer science, nerds with no art back ground kind of coder

The art background comment is funny. I don't really know what all my colleagues studied in school, half of them probably don't remember. But I work with a lot of backend distributed systems people, very little visual UI type work. Most of us use macs because of unix. And that's important because we deploy to Linux. While not the same exactly, it's close enough to build comparable tools between both.

Apple has hands down, the best portable Unix on the market. They should play to that audience more, rather than just a side note.

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whoops1122 3525 days ago
I would also like to add, Microsoft are and had been innovative, they may not making some digital woman who you could talk to on the phone, but how to make OS more efficient and take the advantage on all the new hardware, how to fit windows this giant monsters on all the new hardware, in itself is pretty amazing.
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bluejekyll 3525 days ago
> Windows this giant monstwe

Yeah. Honestly, I don't want Windows. What I want is a really solid durable hardware platform for running Unix. One day maybe I will try a surface with Linux, I wonder if MS has crippled that or not. Anyone know?

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benaadams 3524 days ago
Can just use ubuntu xenial directly from Windows https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
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bluejekyll 3524 days ago
yeah, I know about the Linux compatibility in Windows. But I don't want Windows ;)

So Linux is good enough for me, but on the Laptop there are still many issues, like waking from sleep. Apple has an excellent product, but on the day that I decide that I need to switch, then I'll probably also try to contribute to help fix the Linux issues.

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MisterBastahrd 3525 days ago
Surface is a bigger innovation than anything Apple has released in the last half-decade in virtually all aspects.
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