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SoftTalkeryesterday at 3:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Seems like I remember the main reason Macs survived as a product at all was because you needed one to develop for iOS. That may be an exaggeration but there certainly was a time when Macs were few and far between outside of creative shops. Certainly they were almost unseen in the corporate world, where now they are fairly common at least in laptops.


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pjmlpyesterday at 11:53 AM

Macs survived because Apple got a cash injection, survived long enough to come out with colorful iMacs with an hockey puck mouse, still running on Mac OS 8, and the iPod.

Requiring one for doing iOS development they were already back into the green.

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