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hyproxia | 4 years ago

I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably. Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies.

It'll be entertaining to watch them engage with their sisyphean mental gymnastics once Apple releases a new product with extra wrenches for their pleasure.

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pbasista|4 years ago

> Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies.

No, you are assuming too much. People who do this are typically not interested in boosting Apple's sales at all. They merely want to make a good use of a good hardware.

In general, the ignorance or inability to understand why something is being done does not imply that it in fact is pointless.

For instance, I do not fully see well into the physics of the general relativity. But that does not entitle me to imply that the people who dedicate their lives to exploring this field are wasting their time.

reificator|4 years ago

> I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably. Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies.

Or to enable customers to migrate away bit-by-bit because cold turkey is hard.

I personally am running linux full-time on my personal machines, but I wouldn't have ever made the switch had I not been able to run linux in a VM for a few weeks and then dual boot for a few years and then run windows in a VM for another few years. If people back in the early 2000s had your mindset I'd probably be running a mix of windows and mac today.

simonh|4 years ago

>I really hope that all of these efforts end up failing miserably.

Deep breaths my friend. Maybe time for a walk in the sunshine.

danlugo92|4 years ago

Apple seems to draw so much actual pure hate...

It's like, I can understand hating an oil company or something like that, but Apple? Geez.

saagarjha|4 years ago

> It'll be entertaining to watch them engage with their sisyphean mental gymnastics once Apple releases a new product with extra wrenches for their pleasure.

I mean, you're looking at the new Apple product. This project started on M1 and now it's being extended to work on M1 Pro.

marcan_42|4 years ago

Wrenches found so far: they changed some hardware blocks to scale up to ~2TB of RAM (up from 32GB theoretical max on the M1) and better support more CPU cores and multi-die setups (future product?). And they moved some fuse bits around.

Seems pretty reasonable to me.