[squeak-dev] Platform usage - was some long discussion about macOS, metal, and primitives.

Bruce O'Neel bruce.oneel at pckswarms.ch
Wed May 4 12:47:31 UTC 2022


Well - for all we know our biggest single set of users all use IBM
Z-16 mainframes and any day now they will be sending in the cog
updates for that architecture as well.

Can we at least get download counts for the 5.3 and 6.0 beta packages?

That will be skewed since I expect a fair number of linux installs are
done from source but at least it would be some numbers.

cheers

bruce

On 2022-05-04T13:13:52.000+02:00, Marcel Taeumel
<marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:

>>  Contrasting with that, sales of Mac hardware are fairly
>>  consistently up, whereas 'PC' sales are fairly consistently
>>  down. Apparently.
> 
> Is there a recent chart comparing Apple MacBook sales with 
> Microsoft Surface sales? :-)
> 
> Best,
> Marcel
> 
>>  Am 03.05.2022 20:17:31 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>>  
>>>   On 2022-05-03, at 6:30 AM, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>>>   
>>>   Hi Bruce --
>>>   
>>>   Interesting thought. I know a few people that migrated from the
>>  Apple ecosystem to the Microsoft ecosystem over the last 10 years.
>>  I can also imagine that a modern Ubuntu/Linux system/laptop can
>>  also be convenient to use when thinking about leaving macOS but
>>  wanting to retain a powerful command-line experience.
>>  
>>  Contrasting with that, sales of Mac hardware are fairly
>>  consistently up, whereas 'PC' sales are fairly consistently down.
>>  Apparently.
>>  
>>  tim
>>  --
>>  tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.orghttp://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>  Strange OpCodes: SFA: Seek Financial Assistance
> 
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