But desktop and workstation computing? That's definitely the domain of Macs.Īs we all know, the desktop computing market has changed considerably in the past decade. Now, the fact is (with a few limited exceptions), no one is going to run a Facebook-scale server farm on Macs, not even Apple. Linux (and, to some extent, BSD), Windows, and MacOS are platforms, and they support general purpose computing, ranging from running little point-of-purpose Raspberry Pi servers up to all our desktops and laptops, up through the giant server farms at Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
iOS and Android are platforms, and they support (more with Android, of course) a variety of mobile solutions. It's a hardware/software environment that we build solutions on top of. Here's why.Įveryone reading ZDNet clearly understands the concept of a computing platform.
