It didn't happen through the 90s when Apple were completely adrift, and it won't happen now. The quality of the Linux desktop has not really changed since the late 90s, no matter how much various teams try to make it look like macOS. The same problems with audio, wifi, VPNs, wake from sleep, GPUs, and loading things reliably from network shares within applications still exist.

If you spec up something close from HP and don't cheat on spec by picking things that are lower grade, it is similarly priced normally. That said, pricing on the new touch bar models is taking the piss.

Why bother? This place has gone severely downhill in recent years. It's gone from being an actual news source for people in the industry to basically a linux fanboi circle jerk for shitting on Apple or Microsoft as much as possible.

Look at my UID. I barely bother to log in here any more and rarely even open the site any more because there's nothing here of value any more. If i wanted to read idiots just basically trying to crap on hardware they've never used, i'd go read phoronix.

Have still yet to find a competing laptop that gives me real world 10 hour battery life in the same form factor as my macbook pro retina 13". Have still to find a competing machine with a trackpad worth shit. I'll pay the apple tax, gladly, for these things. MacOS is gravy.

Except you know... your DNS needs to contact remote DNS servers for lookups which are then redirected to the government DNS on the great firewall of ...

... i can have the reliability, transparency and non-spyware nature of Windows 10 with the application quality and consistency of Ubuntu with the patch downloads for and security vulnerabilities of both?

Sweet, where do i sign?! /s

"DO NOT WANT" tag on story is appropriate.

Agreed 100%. Microsoft will be replaced due to the platform becoming less relevant. This will open the door (hopefully) to people being able to run whatever platform they like, be it mobile ARM, OS X, Linux or whatever.

Could also be because they're too busy updating drivers in the kernel rather than coding to an API and keeping that shit out of mainline.

The big selling point for Microsoft is that Windows will run all your busted old shit. So more busted old shit is constantly created and ported to the current MS platform to become the new 'busted old shit' that people need to be able to run on new machines.

Until this cycle can be broken, there is zero incentive for microsoft to fully commit to any new architecture, as their major selling point will go away.

ARM needs to be BETTER than intel in terms of processing per watt. Much better. because intel can run all the legacy software out there and ARM can't. If it is even close, intel will win by default.

iOS also has an emulator that does exactly that. There is zero difference between developing for iOS, Windows or Android, other than the fact that the developer program on iOS gets you a code signing certificate, and on the other platforms you need to take care of that seperately. You can still DEVELOP for iOS with zero payment into the developer program.

Yes, you need a Mac, or at least some way of running OS X to run XCODE, but to develop for Android or Windows you also need a computer with either a Windows license or a copy of Linux.

A 2010 Mac Mini, which is more than capable of iOS development is not cost prohibitive.

... there are 2 ways you can compete in the marketplace - value (i.e., offering something that is worth buying because it offers something you can't get elsewhere) and price. Unless Blackberry are going to offer something useful that other Android OEMs can not offer, they're going to have to compete on PRICE. When they're broke, against the manufacturing might of all the cheap android OEMs in China.

2c. They're toast.

On the contrary, the cost of most iOS applications is much cheaper than the cost of most commercial software on Windows or OS X. There are heaps of free apps on the iOS app store.

If I wanted to develop a Windows app, i'd have to buy another OS and another phone. If i wanted to develop an Android app, i'd need to buy another phone.

Developing for Linux, Windows and Mac is NOT free. The hardware costs money. To sign code on Windows costs money. To sign code anywhere costs money to get a certificate from a reputable CA. The apple developer program gets you a code signing certificate to enable you to publish your app. You can do all the iOS or other Apple development you like without that.