Re: Where Are The Computer Companies?

On 2025-06-04, Tyrone <none@none.none> wrote:

On Jun 3, 2025 at 8:08:29 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <ldo@nz.invalid>
wrote:
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On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:14:24 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
 

Fun fact: Macs/iPhones/iPads make up the largest installed base of Unix
computers by a single company in the world.

 
What is “Unix”? It’s just a trademark. The original meaning of a
particular way for a computer system (OS and userland) to operate has
gone, and Apple played an instrumental part in killing it.

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You repeating this does not make it true. 
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Unix does not look dead to me.

 
When people think “Unix” nowadays, they really mean a Linux or BSD system.
That’s what works they way they expect a “Unix” system to work. Not Apple.

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Only because everyone expects a "Unix" system to be ugly and obtuse.  
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It sounds like you are confusing the GUI with the underlying OS.  Underneath
it is a descendent of BSD, with a userland mainly from FreeBSD.
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MacOS/iOS/iPadOS are, in fact, Unix.   Whether you like it or not.

Some people make the same argument for Android... I don't completely buy
into it, but Android does use the Linux (UNIX) kernel.

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