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0 pointsapatheticonion1y ago0 comments

I would be supportive of OEM vendors if they offered hardware that was comparable.

Sadly, no Dell, Surface, Asus, etc laptop has a screen, trackpad and speakers that come close to the MBP - let alone battery life.

They've repeatedly demonstrated that they don't know how to build a laptop so I've given up hoping they will eventually test drive an MBP and shamelessly copy it.

The surface comes close but also doesn't have Linux support.

It's an interesting point in Apple's Unix core being an implementation detail. It feels like an accident that MacOS is POSIX compliant which makes it suitable for general purpose development

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pjmlp1y ago

It is definitly an accident caused by NeXT acquisition, neither BeOS nor Copland had great plans regarding UNIX like support.

And even in NeXTSTEP's case, that was a side effect of Steve Jobs wanting to go after the UNIX workstation market, the idea was to make it easier to sell NeXTSTEP into those clients, there is very little UNIX in Objective-C, or the related XXXXXXXKits.

"NeXT marketing strategy video (1991)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBIH0CA7ZU

Surviving NeXTSTEP documentation,

https://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/

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