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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad
Subject: Re: Install iOS 17.4.1 now to patch 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:59:28 -0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> Chris wrote on Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:50:54 -0000 (UTC) :
> 
>>>> Apple doesn't support Linux working with iOS - Linux is in the real world.
>>> 
>>> Since I use and program Linux for desktop and embedded projects I can 
>>> attest to its severe limitations in the "real world".
>>> 
>>> Esp. the absence of the more useful productivity apps (MS Office, Adobe 
>>> creative s/w, etc.).
>> 
>> Agree. That's the main reason I moved from linux to macOS. OpenOffice just
>> didn't cut it in a work environment.
> 
> In the work environment, almost everyone uses Microsoft Office nowadays.

Exactly why I moved to macOS. Best of all worlds. A real unix and standard
office productivity apps. I can hack away on a shell script and prepare a
ppt presentation at the same time. 

> Extremely few corporations use macOS as almost all use Microsoft Windows.

Yeah many stick to the lowest common denominator. Cheap and cheerful. 

> However, some do use macOS, but usually only in the marketing departments
> where the women (it's almost always women) who do the graphics learned on
> the mac and they can't switch to anything else as they don't like change.

Lol. You're funny for neanderthal. 

> As for engineers, almost all are on Linux (although many are dual boot with
> Windows which, in effect, gives them the best of both worlds on one PC).

In which industry? I think you'll find that many engineering tools are
windows only. 

> Extremely few engineers would want to be caught dead on macOS, but some
> exist (mostly those who are like the marketing communications people).

Who cares about engineers. Scientists often prefer macs. Watch any recent
documentary about astrophysics or high energy physics and you'll see many
macs on display. Same in other informatics fields like genomics although
not so much in computer science.