![]() ![]() Source: New MacBook Pros and the State of the Macįor me the sheen was long-gone back in November 2014, and in January 2015 I posted about switching (back) to Linux. ![]() Developers are a captive audience, and creative professionals can switch to Windows, I guess. It seems like Apple has either lost its way, that it has lost touch with what (some of) its customers want, or that it simply doesn’t care about those customers. Source: Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X The current state of the Mac has me considering whether it’s still the right platform for me. Source: Apple’s 2016 in reviewĪpple’s review process for extensions is disorganized, arduous and quite frankly insulting Source: What Apple gives you for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer It’s clearly left many disgruntled and some thinking of jumping ship to other manufacturers, either running Linux or Windows. That may work for some, even thought it won’t be their first preference for many. Right now, the only real option Apple has offered is the iMacs, which seems to be their answer for high end machines. There was a time when even Sun’s employees programmed Java on Macs. There was a time when the first things you did when you wanted to be a developer on the Free Software platform Ruby on Rails were that you bought an Apple PowerBook and the proprietary TextMate editor. I’ve read a few articles over the last week or so that point to the Mac having lost its shine among developers. ![]()
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