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gjsman-1000today at 1:43 PM5 repliesview on HN

They get more public goodwill from a single ad. The chronically online Linux-using engineer community is too small to matter.


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mmcnltoday at 5:30 PM

I doubt that. The developer community is what made the MacBook predominant in every tech organization. Before that Macs were mostly popular in the creative sector.

u_fucking_dorktoday at 2:34 PM

And let’s be honest, they still wouldn’t be satisfied. The goal post would move to something else. Why don’t my AirPods seamlessly handoff to my Linux MacBook?

bjelkeman-againtoday at 1:56 PM

Developers build many of the applications that make the platform desirable. Steve Ballmer at least seem to get that part. ;)

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rowanG077today at 2:24 PM

Looking at: https://stats.asahilinux.org/ there is still a pretty large userbase who are so interested in it they go this route. I imagine that count would easily 10x if it would be officially supported. Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at.

I'm running asahi on my macbook. And never touch OSX. I wouldn't even had gotten it if asahi wasn't so well supported.

huflungdungtoday at 1:54 PM

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