Waste of time. I'd either:
1. If no cart, jump the gate. It's not very tall.
2. If cart, just ram through the gate. I don't care if it breaks/sets off alarm and it's not my problem if it does.

I'm not scanning my receipt (which I also don't want) to leave just because grocery stores like Safeway have a failing business model that is trying to compensate with unnecessary technology instead of people. It's not my problem they can't/won't hire enough people. It's not my problem they can't design a halfway decent layout to a big store.

Yes, you can. It is fairly easy to develop for Apple without using Apple products. You must *pay* Apple for the privilege to develop for them (which is a ridiculous concept) and you can't really do any testing without the Apple hardware, but it can be done.

Not an astronaut.

In my world, the concept of loans and credit don't exist to begin with.

All current ones are stupid.

Copyrights should not be transferable (or at the very least not bought and sold).
Copyrights should not last more than 5-10 years from publication unless producing additional works within the same copyrighted work (i.e. a series like Harry Potter or Hunger Games).
Copyrights should never be allowed to be owned by publishers, only by the creator(s) of the work.

Publishers are parasitic middle-men that cannot create content.

Both are terrible systems that end up preying on those with crappy scores - regardless of whether the crappy score is caused by stupidity, negligence, or bad circumstance.

Good. Nothing in CS is worth more than $5.

Because he was not. He was many things, grandmaster, educator, commentator, author, etc, but he was not an influencer. There is no such thing as an influencer. Its called advertising. An ad is an ad is an ad is an ad and no one actually cares to hear about it.

Kids are stupid and Skrilla is a shitty, no talent rapper. The brain rots just gets worse.

Check out https://universal-blue.org/ and their various images depending on which suits your situation more.

I'd rather skip the Apple tax altogether and choose my own hardware and choose something that actually plays nicely with all other hardware - Fedora Atomic distros. I would never pay $1600-3000 for hardware that costs less than $800.

I'm not necessarily advocating *for* Microsoft either. It's what a lot of people are stuck with because a lot of businesses have custom built software that they don't feel like spending the money to try and upgrade. But I stand by my statement that Apple is not suited for business - at least not big, corporate business. Maybe it's fine in smaller businesses.

Combination of what cusco said, and, to a lesser degree, the second half of my other reply to you.

-Upfront and repair costs
-Apple security is nowhere near as good as the average user (or seemingly the average CIO) would think it is
-Even if the Macs are easier to manage in and of themselves (they're not), they're absolutely terrible to manage in a mixed environment
-Does not play nice, if at all, with most of the rest of the hardware and software that businesses need or use

If you want a "workstation" that is easy to manage on a network, doesn't require crazy super Windows specific software, and works on any hardware the answer is Linux. Preferably, a Fedora Atomic based image customized to the employees role. Employee can choose between GNOME (if they prefer Macs) and KDE (if the prefer Windows). Easy to roll out, easy to manage, and basically impossible for the user to fuck it up in any way, and even if they somehow do it can be solved in under 10 minutes.