Ah, that good old "all of US use macs, so we have no reason to make it work cross platform". "Aren't you making this for people to find IoT devices?" - "Yes?" - "Isn't probably more than half the student body _not_ on apple computers?"
The target audience is likely "privacy-minded technically capable home network owners", a significant proportion of whom likely skew towards Apple products.
why would you use apple if you're technically capable? locked down linux would be waaaay more secure(and give you waaaaay cheaper options)
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