Its quite simple to ruin mac business.
Apple depend on two companies, adobe and microsoft, they drive the OS industry.
If they both stops supporting its apps on macos, theres no productivity, customer will look elsewhere.
If adobe and microsoft starts to release its software for linux, mac business will break as apple hw prices, and appstore fees wont be justified.
Mac is the only alternative for those who cant stomach windows and need to do productivity. And 99% of us needs it sooner or later.
If you want a revolution, start writing a open-letter to Adobe and Microsoft, because they are the ones locking the industry in two OSes…
Or let the europeans politics know that they can stop some apple abuses by enforcing by law large sw companies to support its apps on “at least one open source OS”. You could also ask for you legislator.
Start a poll here. If you could have microsoft office, outlook, photoshop, premiere and related apps on linux, why would you pay apple prices for hw?
As soon as both companies support its sw on linux all the rest of industry will be supporting it… quite simple..
I bet you that the vast majority of people at Starbucks glued to their MBAs and MBPs while listening to music on their Apple branded headphones rarely use any office application.
The #1 thing that helps to sell consumer grade Macs is the iPhone. The #2 is trendiness.
MS didn’t open up Office on MacOS to help Apple. They did that to maintain the lead of their Office suite and to prevent Apple or somebody else from developing a dangerous enough competition. Especially since MS was forced to change their office file formats to be more open.
Now, Apple suite would probably never become a true MSO competitor. The most important part of Office is Excel, and Numbers is just too different.
But LibreOffice is very close to MSO, it shares the same basic workflows and design elements. It still lacks full compatibility with Office files, you inevitably lose some formatting trying to edit an Excel or Word document in LO, and it’s still a bit clunky and has that outdated 90s look.
But with enough investment and resources allocated to it, LO could be improved to the point where you could open a Calc file in Excel and not lose any formatting. And most people and organizations aren’t utilizing even 70% of Excel capabilities, so the limitations of Calc aren’t going to stop them.
Apple certainly has enough money to make LibreOffice (or its Apple branded derivative) into a major competitor for MSO with relative ease. So MS is playing it smart by providing a Mac version of Office.
Now, one of the biggest things that MS has a clear advantage over Apple in is gaming. And they are going to hold onto that advantage as long as Apple doesn’t start getting serious about developing its own serious gaming platform.
And Linux is a niche OS for the desktop environment. The cost of a Windows license is trivial compared to the costs (not on lot monetary) of switching to a Linux based system. An average consumer isn’t going to switch to Linux just because it can now support Office or Adobe Suite. They still have to pay the cost of Adobe licenses, so it’s not like they save any money. And Linux is still not a complete ecosystem from a consumer perspective. You still need lots and lots of bandaids to make things work, and rely on many 3rd party solutions that need extensive tweaking and look like they were developed 35 years ago in somebody’s basement.
You also don’t have a single unified Linux ecosystem to design for. The field is too fragmented and there’s too many cooks in the kitchen and things keep changing. Optimizing Adobe Suit for Linux would pose significant challenges. So, why should Adobe care - where’s the money in it for them ?
