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Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by vacri on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:21AM (#12804190)
> Can they develop complex software/systems? The evidence strongly suggests a resounding, no!

I love me a bit of schadenfreude about apple in my time, but come on - they took a unix base and turned it into a desktop that that naives can use pretty safely. No-one else has done that, not without dumbing it down into a simplified OS like a smartphone OS.

They certainly do seem to be sliding given that their users are grumbling more and more, but really, they've got a fair few notches in their belt (though they definitely do also have some turkeys)

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Re:What Apple’s quiet failure can teach you about your business by jacquesm on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:27AM (#12804216)
> they took a unix base and turned it into a desktop that that naives can use pretty safely. No-one else has done that, not without dumbing it down into a simplified OS like a smartphone OS.

Ubuntu works fine, before that there was SGI Irix which worked ok.

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