Re:The iPhone and Apple's Services Strategy
by nojvek on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:38AM
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Running crap on cloud works great until you’re above the cloud or really below the cloud. Powerful edge devices will always be valuable. iPhone is prolly one of the most powerful edge devices out there
Re:The iPhone and Apple's Services Strategy
by prepend on Thursday September 12, 2019 @03:18AM
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I run Mac because it’s the simplest Unix laptop. I think this might change a bit with windows new embracing of Linux as part of the desktop OS. My hope is that by win11, they’ll have better integration and some hardware manufacturer will make a laptop that’s light, big, and has a good touchpad.
The desktop software I use day to day (IntelliJ, Zoom, Slack) already runs on Linux. The rest is already in the cloud.
And yet, of my coworkers, we have about 1 in 50 folks running Linux instead of Mac. It's been this way for the last 6 years - I was actually on Linux in 2013, but have come back to Mac because it's still just all put together a bit nicer in both software and hardware. My last job even discontinued Linux support in that time period.
At my partner's job, they also run on google docs and gmail, but since it's not a software dev job, it's 100% on Mac, without even that small Linux fraction.