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[Barry Smith]

  The cost and effort for us to support Apple is much much less then the cost and effort for us to support Microsoft Windows!

   In fact one could rationally argue that the cost of supporting the multitude of badly configured Linux system is larger that that of support Apple machines.

  Barry


On Jul 19, 2014, at 7:58 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
>> Frameworks
> 
> And this is what got us into the whole mess.  People always think they
> have built the perfect island and that everyone will be content to live
> on the island forever.
> 
> As long as you want to do what the Ghost of Steve Jobs thinks will
> maximize shareholder value, Apple products will work wonderfully.  But
> don't try to do something creative or a ship loaded with dogs, rats,
> pigs, and cockroaches will run aground and destroy all the wonderful
> things, leaving you on a screwed-up island in the middle of an ocean.
> 
> I wouldn't even mind except that the cost of Apple's perverse incentives
> creating a hostile environment for this enterprising user base is
> largely borne by the developers of well-behaving portable software that
> end up supporting those poor saps.