| Weblog: | The Future Of Mac: A Discussion | |
| Subject: | different perspective | |
| Date: | 2005-10-03 07:03:04 | |
| From: | blackrim | |
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I think all of these discussions miss important points. Who is the Mac's intended audience? I am a developer/scientist and am more interested in things not mentioned in the above discussion, and rarely mentioned in any Mac discussions. For example, more compatibility with open source software (the growth of fink and darwinports), more development tools that are cross platform compatible (ex. anjuta), etc. Apple seemed to dab in numerical and scientific computing for a bit (Va. Tech and others), but then abandoned that market for the "faster lighter laptop" market. This seems irresponsible for a few reasons: 1) many laptop buyers purchase one at a time, while academic and scientific institutions purchase hundreds of laptops AND desktops 2) all those institutions that previously worked with Apple will find themselves switching back to linux, and staying put, waiting for linux to adopt the Mach kernel. Oh well. |
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