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Comment by OldSchoolJohnny | Hacker News Reader

Why are we as developers giving this company any of our business when they've thumbed their noses at us for decades?

Everyone else's software/hardware is just that bad, so Apple can fuck around for years and switching's still a tough sell. That's why I'm still around, anyway. This WWDC looks like a move in the right direction for the first time in a while, at least.

Because we as developers also desperately want a UNIX-style system, and our lives are so much easier when we can choose one that won't get us laughed out of the room by commercial software vendors.

Weird. As a developer I haven't found Apple to be thumbing their nose at me.

Many of their features are genuinely useful for my development e.g. TouchBar.

Genuinely curious: how have you found TouchBar useful for development? I think you're the first dev I've seen say that.

Because I can fully customise it using something like BetterTouchTool.

And so in IntelliJ I have custom buttons for executing common commands. I never remembered what each function key does in each app so it's useful for me.

Maybe it's useful because its position is ideal to emulate the missing function keys.

I'd rather have my escape key back.

Because that's where the high-roller users are.

Because we don’t develop things just for ourselves, we develop it for our users who happen to love Apple products.

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