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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by _bxg1 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:33PM (#17139452)
Developers have to have an OS to work from, no matter how much end-user usage shifts to mobile. Otherwise there would be no apps for those other platforms.

Apple may well get out of the developer game, which seems like a dumb idea given their market share, but I'm neither a finance expert nor an Apple executive, so maybe that's just how the numbers play out.

Microsoft is making a decent-sized push in this space lately, with the Linux subsystem, Visual Studio Code, etc. So I would guess they'll end up taking Apple's market share, which is a bit of a shame as far as I'm concerned.

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Re:OS X is as old as the classic Mac OS was when it came out by pjmlp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:48AM (#17141912)
Microsoft learned, thanks to OS X, that most developers don't really want a UNIX, they are more than happy with a POSIX compatible layer for bash, awk, perl, C....

I bet if they had kept the original POSIX personality and improved it throughout the years, many devs would have not looked elsewhere.

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