Apple
The App Store toll, the turn to services, and whether the company that made the machines is still that company.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIt is an infuriatingly locked-down computer. Now, to Apple's credit, it's a pretty good computer for being locked down, but I don't want a locked-down computer. I wanna own my computer. Better yet, I wanna mutate my computer, and this is where the agentic age needs a new operating system. When you can vibe code whatever app comes to your mind, you should be able to vibe code your operating system.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 21st of 41 in this recording
- 1 day earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThere's not this two-tier system where, well, there's Apple or Windows and they make the real thing and then you can try to hack or patch your little thing around it and it's going to look second tier, it always does.
↗Is Linux the perfect operating system? - Omarchy interview with DHHyoutube.com 2nd of 6 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingIntel's Panther Lake has finally matched Apple on power efficiency, so a new laptop should have one.
Their wordsWhat's really important is that if you get a new computer, a new laptop, you get one with an Intel Panther Lake chip. That is the revelation that um just leaped in the Intel side forward. Intel has finally matched Apple on efficiency in terms of uh power usage
↗Is Linux the perfect operating system? - Omarchy interview with DHHyoutube.com 6th of 6 in this recording
- 12 months earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIt's crazy that it took me more than thirty years to realize this, but while I spent time in Apple's walled garden, the free software alternative simply grew better, stronger, and faster. The Linux of 2025 is not the Linux of the 90s or the 00s or even the 10s. It's shockingly more polished, capable, and beautiful.
- 6 weeks earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsBut as Apple discovered the gold mine, it is to operate a toll booth where you don't have to innovate, where you don't actually even have to make anything, where you can just take 30% of other people's business. There was a rot that crept into the foundation of Apple and that started all the way back from the initial launch of the app store.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 31st of 36 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsI think it is incredible and the entire developer ecosystem. Not just on iOS but on Android as well, owe Epic, Tim Sweeney and Mark Rein, an enormous debt of gratitude for taking on the only battle that has ever inflicted a series wound on Apple in this entire sorted campaign of monopoly enforcement.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 32nd of 36 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsApple could absolutely stumble and I think they have more reason to stumble now than ever. They're behind on AI, terribly behind. Their software quality is faltering in a bunch of ways.
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 33rd of 36 in this recording
- 11 days earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIf that fully vertically integrated system suddenly is run by people with not quite as much taste as Steve Jobs with not quite as in tune sensibilities about everything from marketing to the vision of computing but instead by a logistics guy.
↗DHH discusses Linux and Omarchyyoutube.com 3rd of 9 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsyou can see like we're about two little bunny hops away from having a computer that's so locked down that I don't get to run the software of my own choice.
↗DHH discusses Linux and Omarchyyoutube.com 4th of 9 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsLike I really dislike what happened when they took this unfortunate turn into services and realized that that was the easiest money they could they could ever make is just take a cut of other people's business. That has a corrupting force I think.
↗DHH discusses Linux and Omarchyyoutube.com 6th of 9 in this recording
- 5 days earlier
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsI don't know when we'll literally get "The Year of Linux on the Desktop", but I've never been as convinced that its coming as I am now. There's enough dissent in the water. Enough dissatisfaction with both Apple and Microsoft.