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Apple Is Ready to Ditch the Mac

3 pointsby cpayne624over 7 years ago

3 comments

james-skempover 7 years ago
&gt; At the end, her mom asks her what she is doing with her computer. The girl responds by asking, “What&#x27;s a computer?”<p>That&#x27;s her neighbor.<p>And &quot;What&#x27;s a computer?&quot; is a running joke in our household. We both have Macs (me recently after I started seeing her and she gave me her ancient one, and then purchased a new MacBook Air), but I lean toward Windows and we both have Android.<p>To me, &#x27;what&#x27;s a computer&#x27; really shows who Apple is marketing: people who don&#x27;t need to do actual sit-down, 8-5, work.<p>And trendy folks who would say &#x27;what&#x27;s a computer&#x27; even though they know perfectly well what a computer is.
epalmerover 7 years ago
Don&#x27;t most IOS app developers use macs for app development? How might this change the equation?<p>I work on a small public web team and we use macs for development. Increasingly we are moving towards vagrant and docker for our development of the backend code. We are all mac users and I think we would hate going to Windows. Maybe we would go to a linux laptop and run Windows in a VM for the occasional word and excel work we would have to do.<p>edit: typo
catachover 7 years ago
Eh, Apple has been talking up post-PC since the launch of the first iPhone.