Comment by schnebbau
8 hours ago
Well, that certainly would be one way to wipe billions from their share price overnight.
The only way Linux on Mac will become a reality is if it's legislated.
8 hours ago
Well, that certainly would be one way to wipe billions from their share price overnight.
The only way Linux on Mac will become a reality is if it's legislated.
Apple went out of its way to make Linux on Mac a reality. They did a lot to allow third-party OSes when Apple Silicon came out, it's up to the Linux community to do the rest.
There were a couple of people (the Asahi team) that made this work for M1, but as I understand it, the effort has stalled since. This just goes to show how few people truly care.
> This just goes to show how few people truly care.
Most people just want to sit down and eat a nice meal. They don't want to go through all the difficult back breaking work of farming, animal husbandry or fishing/hunting to eat.
That is how I look at people writing OS drivers and core components. It's boring back breaking work no one wants to think about. People pine for it, even romanticize about it. But the fact is that it's dirty annoying work and I have never heard anyone thanking the farmer for the meal they just ate. Yet we still have farmers. Few, yet they exist.
Why would it? Shareholders of the major stocks are generally vibes-based, and I'm sure that if Apple undertook that, they would find a way to build hype around it.
It would literally sell more Mac devices I'm not sure what the argument is that OP is making
Why didn’t Apples stock tank when they started offering Windows drivers, that they’ll stop offering only this fall ?
2006 was a different time, and Apple was a different company. Now, having control is more valuable. See: iOS App Store.
> Linux on Mac will become a reality
Linux on Mac is absolutely a reality [1], and Apple specifically supported it by deliberately leaving a documented/supported mechanism for another OS kernel to be loaded.
[1] https://asahilinux.org/about/
Why would Apple writing some Linux drivers wipe billions from its share price? You can already install Linux on a Mac if you really want to. Back in the day, you used to be able to install Windows on an (Intel) Mac, and that didn’t seem to have any such effect.
You still can right now.
Do Apple provide the necessary technical details for others to write it? I think wasn't that the complain with Asahi effort?
it would likely do the opposite as linux users gravitate to the best hardware for their preferred OS => more hardware sales for Apple
The value of the walled garden FAR exceeds a single digit hardware sales bump.
the bulk of their sales is, in fact, hardware sales. there is a strong case to be made that such developments wouldn't land people in squarely linux-as-the-only-OS-on-the-device territory either, but rather dual boot ie those users also participate in the walled garden on the mac os side. we've seen this before in the intel mac era.
What do mean by the Mac walled garden?
Using the App Store is optional on the Mac.