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My company is primarily a Windows (C#/aspnet/aspcore/xamarin) shop; our dev laptops are all MBPs configured to dual boot so in addition to W10 for daily use with Real Visual Studio (tm), we've got OSX available when needed to do an iOS app or to debug Safari problems.
Windows on ARM is, and probably always will be, a sad joke. That means Arm-Macs won't be suitable as replacements for our current laptops; and I know there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from IT and Bean Counting at the prospect of having to buy (even fractionally, ie shared/loaner systems) more than 1 laptop/developer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Take a look at the Surface Pro line of tablets. Except for those few in most companies who need the CPU power these are excellent machines.
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I wrote: we've got OSX available when needed to do an iOS app or to debug Safari problems.
obermd wrote: Take a look at the Surface Pro line of tablets. Except for those few in most companies who need the CPU power these are excellent machines.
Any variation of [insert windows laptop brand here] will fail the universal laptop criteria because it can't dual boot into OSX any more than an Arm-Mac will be able to dual boot into Windows.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Usually is the arm that moves toward the apple.
(Quickly taking my coat)
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From a development point of view, giving (or selling) Apple to Google would eventually mean having 1 less mobile platform to support. Thus meaning less pain for developers.
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A single monopolist Megacorp?
Thanks, but no, thanks.
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One browser to rule them all and in the darkness . . .
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That being I couldn't give an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) 's turd what apple does.
Oh - wait - another good answer would be: they just stop making the overpriced turds.
(the choices are so useless I didn't pick any - five precious rep points left on the table)
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Have an upvote to compensate for the missing 5 points - even if I disagree with you.
Apple products are really useful: they indicate to the casual observer the people who really will buy any old tat if you market it right.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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That's been know by merchants for eons - consider the Snake Oil salesmen. So I give you some agreement.
There's also the factors that (1) it's expensive so it must be the best, (2) they can afford to spend waste a lot of money on and I want all the world to see, and (3) they just a compelling need to belong to something - anything - and have "iphone" appended to their emails makes them feel part of something.
Am I just loquaciously agreeing some more?
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It doesn't affect me, because I don't do anything near Apple.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Just wanted to write exactly the same.
Very few people left here in my country developing for apple/iOS.
Most do platform independant frameworks anyway and I am quite sure, Xamarin&Co will be ready and set up when this happens... The big companies will talk to each other.
But on the other side - someone wrote "give the company to google" --- it looks like they surrender anyway... Now with iOS getting the ability to finally (only 12 years after google - that's lightning fast for apple terms) remove apps from the desktop and they even get widgets... wow... not much longer and they might arive in 21st century! 
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Do they need to worry? After all, it is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, with server side code (JavaScript, Python, PHP, etc.).
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Beware!
They might just redo their browser so it works with a different system. Apple users, being the suckers that they are, will just placidly accept the incompatibility.
Meanwhile, apple will charges developers by the page to build a website - that meets there usual strict standards, which is to say, means they get paid.
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If I codes for Apple hardware, I'd really want both "Give us developers lots of lead time and help before the change comes" and "Provide tools that port my code automatically"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Who cares? It's Apple, so its not like it's of any interest whatsoever! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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... sorry for all those macbook users, Apple has shown time and time again it does not care for anything other than Apple and it's margins.
Exception up = new Exception("Something is really wrong.");
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