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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gjsman-1000 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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u_fucking_dork 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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?

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bjelkeman-again 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

	▲	internet2000 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The developers for their platforms. Which, crucially, Linux developers are not.

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rowanG077 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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huflungdung 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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