Personal computing discussed
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The Egg wrote:I'm probably going out on a limb here, but it's possible that 9to5mac.com has a slight bias. For instance, notice how they're only listing Windows 7 specifically, rather than all current versions of Windows.
I'd like to see all of Windows versus one specific version of OS X.
kamikaziechameleon wrote:OS x... what an interesting platform. The OS is fine but Apples management of hardware for the platform has really hampered its actual relevancy. Their insistence on locking dedicated GPU’s to literally the top tier products has rendered them irrelevant. They are in such a small portion of the ALL PREMIUM apple OS X lineup that it’s a joke. No software can reliably take advantage of that niche hardware. Its why All major apps for graphics and engineering are either windows exclusive or just run better on windows.
I like OS X, and I want to like Apple’s offerings, but their insistence on relying on Intel graphics (while charging a crazy premium) has rendered their hardware relevancy to the back of the line. And as a result the software support for their platform continues to dwindle in spite of record popularity with millennials and grandparents.
seeker010 wrote:I never trust any developer who picks Star Wars over Star Trek. This survey only confirms my suspicions that talented developers are a dying breed.
Deanjo wrote:kamikaziechameleon wrote:OS x... what an interesting platform. The OS is fine but Apples management of hardware for the platform has really hampered its actual relevancy. Their insistence on locking dedicated GPU’s to literally the top tier products has rendered them irrelevant. They are in such a small portion of the ALL PREMIUM apple OS X lineup that it’s a joke. No software can reliably take advantage of that niche hardware. Its why All major apps for graphics and engineering are either windows exclusive or just run better on windows.
I like OS X, and I want to like Apple’s offerings, but their insistence on relying on Intel graphics (while charging a crazy premium) has rendered their hardware relevancy to the back of the line. And as a result the software support for their platform continues to dwindle in spite of record popularity with millennials and grandparents.
Dwindle? Lol, look again, it just keeps getting larger and larger.
ultima_trev wrote:I don't believe it, not for a second. UNIX / Linux I could believe, my company uses almost all Red Hat or AIX for production and dev projects. But really, outside of pretentious artsy, hipster "prosumer" markets, OSX (just like iOS) has no place in the professional tech world.
SuperSpy wrote:I can't help but laugh at the usage of Big Macs to normalize purchasing power between countries.
NTMBK wrote:OS X is the only platform which you can develop iOS apps on. Ergo, if you are a mobile developer, you need an OS X system.
ultima_trev wrote:But really, outside of pretentious artsy, hipster "prosumer" markets, OSX (just like iOS) has no place in the professional tech world.
ultima_trev wrote:I don't believe it, not for a second. UNIX / Linux I could believe, my company uses almost all Red Hat or AIX for production and dev projects. But really, outside of pretentious artsy, hipster "prosumer" markets, OSX (just like iOS) has no place in the professional tech world.
ultima_trev wrote:I don't believe it, not for a second. UNIX / Linux I could believe, my company uses almost all Red Hat or AIX for production and dev projects. But really, outside of pretentious artsy, hipster "prosumer" markets, OSX (just like iOS) has no place in the professional tech world.
Krogoth wrote:Macolytes shouldn't get all too excited. The pink elephant in room is that *nix slowly but surely taking over the enterprise space. Microsoft's massive misstep with Windows 8 is biting them in arse. Windows 10 and UWP initiatives came a little too late to change the tide.
Microsoft is falling into similar traps that befell Sears and GM. They all get too complacent at their height and senior management made blunder after blunder which allow competition to sweep in and take over.
It is a happy coincidence that OS X in its current form (based on BSD) shares many similarities to *nix family. So developing applications to work under *nix and OS X is child's play when compared to developing an application to work under NT, *nix and OS X.
kamikaziechameleon wrote:I was in an office that made the switch over from macs to windows 6 years ago when adobe stopped offering GPU rendering acceleration on that platform.
just brew it! wrote:ultima_trev wrote:I don't believe it, not for a second. UNIX / Linux I could believe, my company uses almost all Red Hat or AIX for production and dev projects. But really, outside of pretentious artsy, hipster "prosumer" markets, OSX (just like iOS) has no place in the professional tech world.
You have no idea what you're talking about. OS X has a stronger claim to being a "real" UNIX than Linux does, given that it is based on the original BSD code base (instead of being a from-scratch re-implementation of the APIs).
DancinJack wrote:But guyyyyyyyysssssssssss, if you don't use RHEL or IBM you're not a true *nix user and you're a pretentious hipster.