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Well no business end-user or any typical Mac user is going to be bothered about something technical like 'SSH' breaking their system. Only actual devs here would care.

For those business users, it just still works. For developers it's a problem.



Apple's made huge inroads with developers over the last few years, partly coasting off of a social dislike for Microsoft. There's enough Apple fandom out there that they can probably annoy developers a good deal more without affecting the inroads. After all, exactly what can a dev do about it anyway?


Switch to OpenBSD ;-)


Apple developers are perfectly fine.

UNIX developers, well, support OEMs that sell BSD and GNU/Linux laptops.


Macs have a fairly large share of devs, especially in the startup centers like SF and NYC. Most startups end up with macs as the default computer because of the developer experience as well as the ability to manage them for a consistent user experience using MDM solutions like Jamf or Fleetsmith (both Apple-only)


You seem to be nurturing some stereotype of Mac users. Just check (photos of) any Silicon Valley or MIT Cafeteria to maybe calibrate your worldview.




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