12,000 only made; never intended for mass production.

It was a Jony Ive concept machine - the iMac G4 didn't debut an LCD desktop until almost 5 years later.

Seriously, $30 retail for a DVB-T tuner to watch free to air digital...

Another FUD article denigrating the great leader? Jobs missed nothing.

Of course Apple ][ machines used TVs for output via RF modulation.

Also how are the tools for typescript? Having static typing but no auto-complete IDE is a major drawback.

Visual Studio 2013.

Which Google are embracing in Angular as per today's story.

Getting a team of half a dozen or so to do a mooc is way cheaper than a 3 day training course.

Your client saveie6.com has migrated to IE 8?

Dan Grossman's Coursera offering has Racket as one of the languages too.

https://www.coursera.org/cours...

Well I've mainly worked for corporations where the Windows desktop reigns supreme and most correspondence is still done with Office and Outlook plus all the inhouse tools they foist upon us. If I can't get away with Libreoffice on Linux and use an ad-hoc calendaring system then having a copy of Windows on hand is then the next easiest thing than to find that this piece of software doesn't run on OS X and you'll have to run a copy of Windows in a VM.

Certainly that's been my experience in the technological backwater of Australia. Perhaps the acceptance of platform agnostic workflows is greater in other parts of the world.

We had such typing in Java once. Then programs started failing at runtime with a ClassCastException. So the burden moved to the compiler in the form of generics. This sporned a new category of NullPointerException, when referencing primitive int and double variables (autoboxing). So people switched to Scala, where null pointers where eliminated at compile time via the Option type.

Casting is a bad smell in a sufficiently evolved statically typed language.

Well regarding Eclipse, Java was a 2nd class citizen under Jobs, so I am skeptical of any commitment to the platform under OS X. from the time we couldn't ship Java 6 features because Apple were still on version 5, and refusing to update some computers from 1.4.2.

Things may have changed since Larry took over the port but the distrust is still there and for cross-platform development, I see little reason to embrace a Mac. Vim and emacs work equally well on Linux, if not better. :)

Understably if one were developing products for iPhone or Mac then certainly.

Yep hence Vala, which transpiles to C-with-GObject.

Intel NUC and Gigabyte Brix have stolen the market share of the Mac mini, for those of us who don't run OS X at least.

Now compare the price of the base iMac ($US1099) to the base Mini ($US499). That's a $US600 price difference for near identical specs (8GB vs 4GB). I'm sure it's a lovely screen but c'mon. I can buy a very nice monitor for $US200 and attach a NUC to the back with a vesa mounting plate. With the advantage I can keep the screen when I upgrade to a newer computer and sell the other one online for 50% of its original value.

Wanting the Mac Mini to succeed while not acknowledging that iMacs earn Apple a tidy markup?

Developers?

We must mix in different circles then because most developers I know use Eclipse/Visual Studio/emacs/vim. Buying a macbook just to run a productivity OS in Virtualbox seems a cruel and unusual punishment. :)

trickle down economics... Apple's 'innovation' at the high end will eventually filter down to the masses.

I'm predicting a rise in sales of USB hubs though. :)

I know scads of people who prefer to use a full size keyboard with a proper number pad etc at their desks. And the number of that prefer a mouse to the trackpad is legion.

Mouse, yes. Perhaps I'm uncoordinated (don't answer that!) but I find using a trackpad torturous. Selecting text, middle click paste, lack of a scroll wheel are all challenges.

But I never understood the external keyboard. My fingers learned how to adjust to the cramped keyboard of a 12.1" laptop and switching to a full-size keyboard throughout the day interfered with muscle memory. But then I don't use the numeric keypad significantly.