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Re:Introduction to Apple Silicon by musictubes on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:30PM (#32314533)
You can't have a good development machine that is locked down. As long as Apple wants people to write software they will have to have at least one open platform.
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Re:Introduction to Apple Silicon by umanwizard on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:23PM (#32314781)
That’s just not true. Tons of people use a Mac as a software development machine and virtually zero of them install a non-macOS operating system.

All it has to do is run Docker and people will continue developing Linux software on it.

That said I don’t think Apple is planning on locking down macs, simply because they have never done so (at least not in the modern era), whereas they have always done so with i-devices. Sure there’s always a chance they could change one practice or the other but there’s no good reason to believe they will.

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