| > Apple devices are becoming increasingly unusable for developers. Nothing laughable about that. It's absolutely 100% true. That's why only 25% of developers are on a Mac. Outside of the Silicon Valley bubble that number goes way down. > Fantastic opportunity for Linux apps to gain more dev resources, as anyone with a bit of foresight sees little future in macOS, iOS, Windows, or Android as development platforms. Linux apps have steadily been gaining more dev resources. That's why we have big companies like Microsoft bending over backwards to make things like VS Code run on Linux or in Linux container tech. > Developers do not dictate the success of a platform. Users do. And they don’t want Linux on the desktop. Linux is on more systems than any other OS. Was that because of Users? Nope. If Macs and iPhones disappeared tomorrow, the world would largely continue on without much hassle. If Linux or Windows disappeared, we'd have a worldwide catastrophe on our hands. Users never chose Windows either. Developers and the businesses that they worked for did. The number of normies using Linux on the desktop isn't a good metric. There are as many devs on Linux as there are on a Mac. Of those, I'd say more than half are not even targetting iOS but rather the web. So, Apple is always just a few bad moves away from losing those web devs to a Linux desktop. |