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Shit like this happens everyday and yet many regard OS X as the best development platform. Wtf?

• thom_nic 11y ago
  If by "every day" you mean "when there's a major version release," then yes. Major releases bring potentially breaking changes.
• eggie 11y ago
  You could have a stable free environment that will work for a decade or a proprietary one that's designed to cause older computers to break and require expensive upgrades. For various reasons many people love the latter. I also don't mind having excuses to upgrade my hardware but I dislike being driven forward by planned obsolescence, which is basically how every piece of Apple hardware I've ever owned has ended its life. Exploding batteries. Horrible one-way OS upgrades. I thought it'd be helpful for art and music software, but I found the opposite. I thought it'd be good for programming but had to invest absurd amounts of time in installing basic open source development software. Never again.
  • omegote 11y ago
    +1, and yet my post got downvoted to oblivion, lol. I'm sorry I bothered all those developers at starbucks with their macbooks and their hard-to-prononunce coffees.
  • oldmanjay 11y ago
    I'm not totally sure how exploding batteries and optional OS upgrades are driving you forward through planned obsolescence. I feel like maybe in your apparent "rage" you lost the logic thread of the point you actually wanted to make and conflated a few things into an incoherent rant.
• umanwizard 11y ago
  Nobody else sells nice, super-useable, high-end UNIX personal workstations. Agree with your point -- Apple is a developer-hostile company and their OS is bad for people whose work involves tinkering with computers. Still the best development platform, though, which is a sorry state of affairs.