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What about the barrier to entry is insurpassable? Apple hardware in about a decade went from being something every developer I know raved about and loved to bei
by ajsharp 5y ago
What about the barrier to entry is insurpassable? Apple hardware in about a decade went from being something every developer I know raved about and loved to being something everyone complains about and is generally unhappy about. Apple went from being a computer company to a consumer electronics company. The more they expand into other consumer verticals (tablets, headphones, CARS), the more the computer products suffer.
- rapsey 5y agoYet their computers are still massively popular with developers. As for the barrier, it is in the software and app ecosystem.
- ajsharp 5y agoI'd argue they're popular because no better alternative has been created (yet). My point with the software is that most software people use to create software/apps is increasingly created with web technologies / electron apps, so the native app ecosystem on a desktop machine is increasingly weakening as a moat.
- qsort 5y agoI'd say the #1 reason is that most developers (myself included) want the intersection of: - Unix-like, developing on Windows is pure torture - Don't waste my time with configurations, drivers and other crap, I want a machine that I can be productive with out of the box. Take my money if you have to, but I don't want to edit Xorg.conf ever again. You can talk about polish all day, but no machine that doesn't satisfy both is even close to appealing for a majority of developers in my experience. You are right about the native app ecosystem being less of a blocker, but that's in line with my point.