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by enos_feedler7 hours ago |
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upvoteby bitpush6 hours ago|
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> I always thought the reasons Apple snubbed Facebook were out of values and principles not business.

Apple is showing a masterclass of how to tow the line perfectly. Or more candily "have the cake and eat it too".

If you ask anyone, what's one company that'll stand up to government requests, most reasonable people would say Apple. Yet, Apple is extremely strategic when it comes to China. It thrives in that country, without being associated with CCP.

Same here - they are happy to partner with Meta, without getting any of the bad "aura".

To be clear, all companies do this just that Apple alone has a successful strategy here. Tim Cook personally gifted the current adminstration with a gold plaque, something none of the other "dirty" CEOs did. Such a public gesture, yet nobody would think that Apple is in bed with the current administration. Its marvelous to see this happen in real time.

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upvoteby macintux6 hours ago|
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Apple also was one of the largest contributors to the ballroom. They're not maintaining much of a "moat" between the company and the administration.
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upvoteby origini7 hours ago|
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Its still weird though.

The datacenters are not full of Mac studios but Nvidia hardware.

They are known for macbooks.

And they are not willing to build proper apple servers for all the build systems people have.

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upvoteby robotresearcher7 hours ago|
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They did, and few people bought them, so they stopped.
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upvoteby myrandomcomment7 hours ago|
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I worked at a company where one of the pieces of hardware we were building at the time used a PowerPC CPU (this is back in ~2007). We had a rack of Apple xServe for build and test. The xServe was nice pieces of hardware compared to the x86 kit we had, more like Sun gear in their attention to detail and ease of use.

At my current company we compile for x86 and devs can do a full build and test environment on their laptops (which are 95% MacBook Pros) but it is unclear what will happen when Rosetta support is pulled. Now the interesting thing is we plan to move our stuff over to target the AWS Graviton (and other cloud ARM cores) as those instances are cheaper for generally the same performance (for what was are doing anyway) so the point will be moot. There will be some crossover point where having build and test servers in a rack will be cheaper than doing it in the cloud. At that point having Apple ARM based servers would be a win assuming we can build a binary that works for Graviton, et.al.

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