How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
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How Apple Alienated Mac Loyalists
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#2The lack of attention could perhaps be caused by the death of the man who brought the attention?
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#3And that could be the beginning of the end. Yes, it might be slow; however, once devs start migrating to other platforms, it could become a serious hit on Apple.
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#4For me, there's still no alternative. And I also will not recommend anything but a Mac to friends and family. They just have the best personal computer on the market, period.
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#5Has anyone taken the Novena laptop designs and tried to produce an updated version? Seems like fairly obvious Kickstarter material there.
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#6Maybe the time is right for SGI to get back into making workstations again now that Apple doesn't seem to care as much as before.
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#7Well I've migrated back to Windows for my latest computer, but part of that was also because I already had a reasonably functioning mac ( although starting to stumble) and ubuntu installation.
I plan on buying another mac later next year - however that is because my wife is a mac loyalist.
to say that losing developers is losing mac loyalists is pretty weird actually, traditionally developers have not been the core mac loyalist profile.
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#8I find it remarkable that a company the size and profitability of Apple seems unable to do more than one thing at a time. Simply not enough engineers?
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#9For me, there's still no alternative. And I also will not recommend anything but a Mac to friends and family. They just have the best personal computer on the market, period.
Not to mention the added benefit of being able to say "Take it the Apple store".
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#10I have the same feeling about iPhone in general as I do for my Mac, as I do for my (gathering dust) Apple Watch. Maybe we are experiencing the beginning of the decline of this system class. The question could be: what could Apple do to re-energize this ecosystem and take it to its next level? Or to invent the next class of systems?