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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

macOS is barely 15% and people care a lot about it.

[-] kadup@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

People care a lot about macOS because you can charge users $15 for a GUI wrapper around a terminal command and they will pay and even recommend your app. I'm not even joking, there are a thousand examples of apps like this. If your app actually does anything, you can charge $30 and they will pay.

Now on Linux you could release the cure for cancer for $0.99 and you'd get screamed at. And I say that as a Linux user. Which means you need significantly higher numbers than macOS to achieve the same revenue, which also means the companies developing the commercial software that holds back adoption of Linux will take a long while before starting to care.

[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

In all seriousness fuck charging for cures, especially for cancer. Life is about more than getting paid. I just lost someone yesterday to cancer so I'm sure this is an outsized response, but seriously, cancer fucking sucks.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not outsized at all, capitalist greed sucks even harder in the medical field. its literally playing with people's lives for money.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 21 hours ago

Isn't it the same on Windows tbh?

The knowledgeable users on MacOS install Homebrew (or nix if being a hipster) and get most of their cool tools for that.

With Windows, the default assumption is that the user has less money than a MacOS user so all the useless shit on Microsoft Store is cheaper than MacOS, but it's still money for software that shouldn't be paid.

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