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Ha!
We're not dedicated to Windows development. We're dedicated to development in any shape or form. We just have lots of .NET stuff due to our personal expertise / preferences and that of our audience.
In terms of Apple stuff, I love their stuff. Or loved. I think their devs need a slap around the head, and I think John Ive needs to back off the minimal and understand we live in the real world. I'm also very, very disappointed in Tim Cook taking Apple back to the dark times of a series line so complicated that not even the execs at Apple understood it. (and that's when Steve came back and made the company what it is. Or was.)
sigh. It's complicated.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"Dedicated" is definitely the wrong word.
"Heavily slanted towards"?
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Yeah, definitely, but the more Swift / Node / React / Java / COBOL / Whatever we get the better. The days of being able to sit on one stack are long gone. (Though Xamarin does try and insulate us and pretend there's nothing else out there).
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And also ... Windows bashing / mocking happened here too ...
I was one of the complainers when Win 10 Update went nuts and
spoiled my computer. It is indeed rather complicated sigh ...
Regards,
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Chris Maunder wrote: a series line so complicated
Ah! Fond memories...my first 'modern' computer was a PowerMac 6100 running on 7.5.x...and my first computer book was 'Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters'. I must have rebuilt that thing a dozen times! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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There's a Hell of a thick line between liking something and worshipping it -- and anyone who knows anything about anything won't worship a brand, because a company is only as good as its last Note 7... cr@ppy OS... product.
As always, it's those with only a little learning who make the most trouble.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That reminds me of Steve jobs saying for Tablets "Macbooks should come with Sandpapers to use those arrow keys: 
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Just got a Lenovo lappy and they put the page up key where the shift key should be. It would be bad enough if I was a touch typist but I'm not and it is really irritating.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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One of my lappies (ASUS K53S) has the inverted T cursor keys such that up lives where my finger expects the last bit of the right shift key. So, hold shift, glance down for $ or whatever and wind up typing 4 a couple of pages above where I intended $. GRRR!!!! Fortunately I found a decent wireless keyboard/mouse combo. The keyboard with the legs down neatly straddles the lappie keyboard. And a real rodent beats the hell out of a touchpad.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: And a real rodent beats the hell out of a touchpad
When I plugged in the wireless rat it disabled the touchpad which was not a problem until the rat ran out of battery. No extra battery and no touchpad - irritating in the extreme.
I later found I can have both active as only the install disables the touchpad.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Must be the same bunch of guys who insist putting a "fn" key on bottom left of all laptop keyboard, instead of usual Ctrl.
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My new mobile phone has a feature that activates every Sunday, and creates a lovely slideshow, complete with soothing music, of all the photos taken during the week.
So now I can sit down, every Sunday, and enjoy a lovely candle-lit meal with my beautiful wife, and we can gaze with unabashed romanticism at the pictures of hardware cabinets, server blades, terminal servers, etc.
Such joy these amazing phone-app developers bring us, and how wise they are to make the apps impossible to uninstall (without root), because it is certain that everyone will want the apps to switch themselves on every Sunday until forever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Use this to uninstall unwanted application without root-ing your phone: The Magic Tool[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Ah, but one must not give in to temptation -- especially on a Sunday.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Such a good idea because everyone has Sunday off[^]! 
veni bibi saltavi
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They must have carefully studied the advice in the book: "How to get your Inbox Stuffed to the Brim with Hate Mail".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: at the pictures of hardware cabinets, server blades, terminal servers
At least mine would be wine labels. The only photos I take with the phone are of wines we have bought.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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At least you'd get the chance to say "Shall we try a glass of this with dessert?"
The best result I could have is to spot a fibre that's been shoved in the wrong switch port, and the happy discussion that could ensue on RSTP failures.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Note to self: be sure to delete / transfer / otherwise remove pictures of lovely girlfriend taken during the week prior to Sunday or plan on making appointment with divorce lawyer.
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Good idea!
And you can do it safely, too, because google, dropbox, the NSA, and all their uncles will all keep back-up copies for you!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why did you have to say you missed* the rain[^]?
Thursday and Friday were total wash outs and a lot of roads have been damaged around here with drains bursting and the roads collapsing on top. The biggest I know of is a good 5m long taking out the main highway near where we live. I now have to try and find a back-up, back-up route for school as this morning was another marathon 3 hour round trip!
Today looks sunny though and, if Mrs Wife fancies it, it may be good enough for a late afternoon swim in the Med. Swings and roundabouts, innit.
Hows your Sunday?
* yes I know it should be 'bless[ed]' but this was funnier [not]
veni bibi saltavi
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Quick! Drop a house on some old woman, steal her shoes and click the heels together three times, while saying "there's no Gin like Gordons".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And he'll end up in a Gibson[^]?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I will see your Toto, and raise you an Annie! Eurythmics[^]
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Far too whimsical and calm! Try someone dropping a lake on your head for a sense of the scale 
veni bibi saltavi
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