Comment by wenc
2 years ago
I remember a time when this mattered in terms of branding (Mac OS X being a Unix). It meant that the OS was “industrial-class”. This was against a backdrop of Macs not being seen as serious machines, unlike Windows machines which were more “corporate”.
But nowadays macOS is so pervasive that a Unix certification doesn’t buy much brand cachet. Perhaps it might help for specific compliance requirements but those are likely the minority.
> It meant that the OS was “industrial-class”. This was against a backdrop of Macs not being seen as serious machines, unlike Windows machines which were more “corporate”.
See FoxTrot comic from February 2002:
* https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25