We asked professionals if they wanted Apple’s desktop, and they all said no.

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I think Apple is going to lose that edge with developers as WSL and its ecosystem keep improving. There’s no Apple servers, so a lot of that code they’re writing runs on Linux, but Macs only look like Linux. They actually work differently, and you have to use homebrew and a lot of tools are different. But I can load up just about any distro with WSL, so all the packages install the same. Add on top of that the difficulty of making Mac work with AD and having a different version of Microsoft Office. Plus their licensing terms for virtualization are terrible, and they don’t make multi-session servers anymore, so developing IOS apps usually means you have a small fleet of Mac Minis instead of some nice enterprise hardware.

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