Musing on the Mac...

Posted by Andy Brice
Apr 10, 2017 at 09:34 PM

I have both PCs and Macs and my software products run on both OSs. They each have their strength and weaknesses. But:

As a user:

Windows 8 was an absolute train wreck for desktop WIndows users. What were they thinking?

The latest line-up of Macbooks seems to be a big step backwards. I can’t imagine their new button bar is going to be very useful or long-lived and I don’t want to have to carry a big bag of adaptors with me.

As a developer:

Apple loves to make life miserable for their developers by nuking their development ecosystem from orbit every few years. Microsoft, on the other hand, work very hard to keep old software working.

The economics of the Mac app store are pretty horrible for developers. Microsoft would probably like to squeeze developers in the same way, but don;t seem to be able to pull it off.

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Andy Brice
http://www.hyperplan.com