they’re gonna make a killing if this is truly in the $600 range, which is well inside their capabilities and profit margins. even just dumping it at non-US markets would make everyone and their uncle switch over.
linux coulda had that shot but the fragmentation of the options, the toxic fanbase, and shortsightedness of practically every player makes this super-improbable.
Apple is trying to scoop up people screwed by Windows 11.
That’s fine. People don’t work for free. People who work on Linux development are employed in supply chains involving Linux, with commercial incentive.
And another reason I really like this is that apparently they didn’t become crap in the decade between 2010 and 2020, they were playing the long game. LOL.
And also this would mean a rapid change from Apple being overpriced stuff for overly stunning girls (honestly something is strange with my life, I know more than zero such, actually more than non-stunning girls, and the even stranger fact is that only one of them uses Apple things, but eh, the metaphor), to it being almost/sometimes/occasionally underpriced stuff for everyone. They are already close to that honestly.
And at this point I (eh) got tired of tinkering, and while FVWM and using Linux or FreeBSD is wonderful, probably macOS with some programs like Emacs could do. And it would be a commonly supported OS, and there would be all kinds of “click-click-double-click” software for it.
Not that Apple criticisms are all wrong, but their build quality also becomes attractive as years pass by, because my laptops from ABS plastic become something barely holding together, used very carefully and with mechanically ruined ports in a couple of years each. Bad movements coordination, carelessness and such.
But will it try to force me to create an Apple account just to turn it on for the first time, or whatever other bullshit happened last time I tried to buy one?
You don’t need an Apple Account to use a MacBook and never have - it’s only required for specific services like if you want to use iCloud or the App Store.
Why do people feel the need to yell their little fantasies onto the internet?
that’s not a thing,
what is a thing is you involuntarily becoming part of apple’s covert peer-to-peer network of unknown security, breadth, or function, that works even when your device is supposedly off and that you can’t opt out of or disable.
