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by bigyabai 376 days ago
> 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.