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How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

smaxp writes In 2007, Sony's supply chain lessons, the network effect from the shift to Intel architecture, and a better OS X for developers combined to renew the Mac's growth. The network effects of the Microsoft Wintel ecosystem that Rappaport explained 20 years ago in the Harvard Business Review are no longer a big advantage. By turning itself into a premium PC company with a proprietary OS, Apple has taken the best of PC ecosystem, but avoided taking on the disadvantages.

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  1. Re:Troll much? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    AC's seem to have the worst luck with computers. Maybe you should log in and see if things change.

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  2. Re:It helps to actually use the thing. by krkhan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nearly all of the development tools of Linux are available on OSX via ports, brew or simply compiling oneself. Even fairly advanced stuff like valgrind. There is no shortage of cross platform GUI toolkit like Qt.

    In what way is OSX crippled as a dev box ?

    Well, obviously the lack of systemd.