[api]

More than a bean counter analysis would show. It makes them the dominant PC platform for developers and many forms of "serious work." Abandoning or ruining the Mac would, over time, relegate them to one of the "other" ecosystems from a developer POV. As everyone knows the "other" ecosystems are the ones that get less attention.

[bigyabai]

> It makes them the dominant PC platform for developers

In my 12 years of employment in this industry, I have yet to encounter a MacOS build server. "Serious work" doesn't happen on MacOS by design; it's not a deployment platform. You don't put Mac instances on your K8s network, most of the time your customers aren't using a Mac either. Even big companies like 1Pass have realized what a waste this is, and started porting their Mac software to Electron. Apple couldn't dominate developers if they systematically murdered every other POSIX-compliant OS.

The more time you spend as a development studio optimizing for a runtime you never use, the more capital you waste to achieve the same end-goal. It's not a real thing outside the comically capital-intensive SV culture.

[msgodel]

I do "serious work" from a mac and the only software I use on it is OpenSSH, Safari, Webex, and Outlook. Everything actually serious gets done on a Linux VM in a datacenter.