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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by adrianN on Friday February 24, 2017 @02:29AM (#13721758)
Back when the first intel macs came out, they actually were made for developers and were great machines.
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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by ubernostrum on Friday February 24, 2017 @03:06AM (#13721928)
they actually were made for developers

Apple has never, so far as I am aware, deliberately targeted developers as a primary audience of a laptop computer.

Apple's laptops became popular because they ran an operating system that was Unix under the hood, with a nice UI and good set of non-developer applications, which made them good as machines a developer could use for work and for non-work (Linux on the desktop being not so great at the second part of that). Apple has certainly been happy to make money from developers buying laptops as a result of this, but has consistently ignored the expressed wishes and desires of developers when updating its laptop lines, meaning Apple was popular in spite of Apple's indifference, rather than because Apple lovingly catered to this audience.

In other words: if you were looking for an executive to run around the stage screaming "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!", I think that was probably some other company, and they got ridiculed for it...

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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by adrianN on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:07AM (#13722438)
Steve Jobs certainly understood the importance of developers:

https://youtu.be/4QrX047-v-s?t=459

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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by ubernostrum on Friday February 24, 2017 @05:10AM (#13722450)
"Understanding the importance of" is different from "develop product line with explicit goal of catering to".
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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by Lio on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:32AM (#13722269)
I believe you are mistaken. Apple has certainly courted scientific and other developers before.

Here's an article about when they stopped targeting science.

https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-drops-science-...

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Re:Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs by ubernostrum on Friday February 24, 2017 @04:55AM (#13722368)
"Science" is not "developers". Apple wanted to sell them on a full stack all the way up to clusters of expensive Mac hardware for parallel computing. And the article you link even admits that companies which have targeted scientific users with hardware have mostly failed -- that market is more likely to buy either extremely specialized hardware or, more likely, commodity machines that they slap Linux on.
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