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I was trying to come up with a response but you're right. It would be easy for Apple and Apple would get so much goodwill from the community in return.

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They get more public goodwill from a single ad. The chronically online Linux-using engineer community is too small to matter.

Looking at: https://stats.asahilinux.org/ there is still a pretty large userbase who are so interested in it they go this route. I imagine that count would easily 10x if it would be officially supported. Those numbers are nothing to sneeze at.

I'm running asahi on my macbook. And never touch OSX. I wouldn't even had gotten it if asahi wasn't so well supported.

And let’s be honest, they still wouldn’t be satisfied. The goal post would move to something else. Why don’t my AirPods seamlessly handoff to my Linux MacBook?

I doubt that. The developer community is what made the MacBook predominant in every tech organization. Before that Macs were mostly popular in the creative sector.

Developers build many of the applications that make the platform desirable. Steve Ballmer at least seem to get that part. ;)

The developers for their platforms. Which, crucially, Linux developers are not.

Apple Macbooks support virtualization of Linux on MacOS.

That's a low bar. Microsoft does too, with a much better hypervisor.

Yes, Linux developers are officially supported by both Apple and Microsoft, with Microsoft developers being a major contributor to upstream Linux and WSL2 having grown into a capable Linux development environment.

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