Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6298328-20140113210419/@comment-5394692-20140113212714

Okay, this should be fun! Also, this isn't general discussion. It's more off-topic.

Anyway, Macintosh's hardware limits any true upgrade. Most components on the market are for machines running anything that's not a proprietary Macintosh machine.

For your statement on operating system upgrade, you do in fact need to pay a license fee. (Admittedly, it's as low as $15 but the $1500 price tag for the initial hardware still doesn't make it a good investment.) Remember Lion?

Macintosh was created way earlier. Like, one of the first ones to feature GUI. Not a real argument but should be corrected. Unix came way before that, then Macintosh was based off of that and "improved" it. I miss the Apple II.

Higher quality means higher cost. Higher cost means limited accessibility to the mainstream. Less mainstream use means less market share. Less market share means not as profitable.

Consumer use on Unix is growing ever since Windows 8 and Steam for Linux launched.

Lastly, most games are developed using Linux more often because of it's developer market share and user base. Not to mention the huge open-source community that makes a lot of things much more accessible than Macintosh. Also, Windows has better and free development tools than Macintosh such as Visual Basic Express. 70% is a biased result as development on games are balanced between multiple operating systems.