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I avoid buying from the mac app store as much as possible. If Apple ever decided to change mac os x to no longer allow external applications, I would switch to
by song 11y ago
I avoid buying from the mac app store as much as possible.
If Apple ever decided to change mac os x to no longer allow external applications, I would switch to Linux right away. I don't want to do that because I do like the os X better a GUI... But there's no way I'd stay on a system that wouldn't allow me to do what I want with it.
- atonse 11y agoEDIT: That would be suicide (for the whatever 5% of their sales the mac brings in!). If they imposed a rule like that AND continued to neglect the app store the way they do, droves of developers would leave. Unless they rethink or overhaul their sandboxing system to allow a bigger class of applications (essentially, most of what's out there), they won't be able to move power users to the App Store.
- Alex3917 11y ago> That would be suicide Most big companies commit suicide. If you think OS X and the MacBook Pro users are being neglected now, just wait until they have the car.
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- seivan 11y agoWould you prefer exclusive Mac OS games through Steam or Mac App Store?
- 91bananas 11y agoSteam all day, especially after this disaster of expired certificates this year [0]. I had a copy of a game from 2007 that will probably never be touched by the developers again, which leaves me $20 in the hole with a broken game. I bought it again from Steam, works better than the App Store version ever did. [0]: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/17/apple-responds-mac-app-store-certificate/ http://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/17/apple-responds-mac-app-s...
- seivan 11y agoI am sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. This game, was it a OSX/iOS exclusive or cross-platform AAA game?
- robotcookies 11y agoI feel the same way. And it's funny how many people think along similar lines and then go straight to their iPhone without a second thought. It's as if because it's always been that way with the iPhone (no external apps) that it makes it ok.
- sinatra 11y agoI think one reason is that you use your Mac to create/develop, whereas you use your iPhone to consume (I'm obviously generalizing). You need more flexibility and control with tools that you use to create/develop.
- SneakerXZ 11y agoBecause limitations imposed by iOS are not limiting me from things that I want to do and benefits outweighs negatives.
- song 11y agoI only have an iPhone because I need to have one for testing and developing. I've always kept my iphone jailbroken for this very reason.
- greggarious 11y agoI would switch if I could find a good open source RAW image editor to rival Photoshop.
- sscotth 11y agoOr simply a linux port of the creative suite?
- bjacobel 11y agoYeah, simply.
- waz0wski 11y agoNot a direct photoshop replacement, but for specific photo editing of RAW photos, have you tried darktable? (http://www.darktable.org/ http://www.darktable.org/) It's not as good as Lightroom, but I'd say it's 80% of the way there, and you can replicate some of the missing functionality with other applications.
- mrschwabe 11y agoThe latest Photoshop on Linux is quite attainable; I have CC running smoothly via VMWare Worksation 12 / Windows 7 (new versions of VMWare have DirectX/OpenGL and let you allocate GPU memory) ... but unfortunately that combines 2 proprietary solutions so guess it doesn't exactly fit your criteria.
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- jp555 11y ago> there's no way I'd stay on a system that wouldn't allow me to do what I want with it. But there's a big difference between allowing you to do something and allowing you to not change the way you do something.
- jnbiche 11y ago> But there's a big difference between allowing you to do something and allowing you to not change the way you do something. I've read this sentence 5 times and I'm still not sure what you mean. Can you expound, please? I'd say that semantics aside, it's pretty black and white: either OSX allows users to install apps as they please, or they don't.
- jp555 11y agoI just mean it's easy to conflate a reluctance to change one's process with changing software capabilities. I prefer to edit video on iOS over Windows/OSX but it required me to change how I get video editing done.
- tomphoolery 11y ago> If Apple ever decided to change mac os x to no longer allow external applications, I would switch to Linux right away. Even if that did happen, which it wouldn't, what would stop you from compiling the application yourself, theoretically? If Apple computers allow for compilation of their own software, which they probably always will given that a Mac is the only way you can make OS X or iOS apps at this time, then OS X will never get to a point like the iPad wherein you are very limited in what you can do.
- eveningcoffee 11y agoWhat if they restrict running compilers? Edit: I see from down votes that people disagree with this idea (no problem with that). Still, why not? You need a developer licence for iOS that effectively means that you are restricted to run compilers on iOS. Why not extend it to OSX?
- SneakerXZ 11y agoBecause you would lose your customers. If my operating system limits me from doing things that I can do on other platforms and I want to do them, I will simply not use the system. Are you realizing Mac is used also by creative people that use Adobe tools, tools for 3D and so on and if everything was sandboxed you couldn't do it anymore.
- djloche 11y agoApple's core customers are iPhone and iPad customers now. They realized that catering to consumer electronics customers is far more profitable than catering to pc power users, and adjusted everything to fit the profit model that makes them the most money. At times, I wish they had spun off Apple Computer as a separate entity with OS X so that the computer division wouldn't have to sit and play fourth seat to the rest of the business.
- SneakerXZ 11y agoThey sell a lot of Macs http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/27/apple-earnings-fy15-q3-2/ http://9to5mac.com/2015/10/27/apple-earnings-fy15-q3-2/ Killing that segment would be silly from them.
- eveningcoffee 11y agoI don't want to do that because I do like the os X better a GUI I think that in the current pity world of 16:9 displays, actually Ubuntu has the most logical GUI layout because they conserve the vertical screen real estate as much as possible. This means they merge global toolbar, menu and window title bar when windows are maximized. I see that OSX has followed this trend but their solution seems to be more ad-hoc and application based that it does not feel natural for me.
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- insanebits 11y agoThis is relevant on the laptops or devices with smaller screens mostly, 1080p(24in) monitors are fairly common those days which gives more than enough screen estate to fit at least 2 side by side windows, ~100 char width text is recommended width for text reading. And as for linux distro with a good GUI I would suggest looking into Elementary OS which is a ubuntu based and UX oriented. I used it on a daily basis for about 6 months and had good experience (not excellent though, it has some issues but what doesn't?)
- CrimsnBlade 11y agoI wouldn't be too afraid of the Linux GUIs. With the amount of customization that is available for these you can probably make it operate very similar to the way your OS X GUI does. Granted that could take some extra work on your part.
- squeaky-clean 11y agoIt would take a ton of polish that I don't believe any non-corporate team could accomplish. There is elementaryOS, which is my favorite Linux distro. It's absolutely beautiful and looks a lot like OSX, but OSX is still much more enjoyable to use, for reasons I can't exactly specify.
- acchan 11y agoIf you like the OS X user interface, you'll feel right at home with https://elementary.io https://elementary.io