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I know! It's a wonder that no one thought of building an operating system with a central repository for apps and their updates, that perhaps shipped with a corr
by andrewvc 17y ago
I know! It's a wonder that no one thought of building an operating system with a central repository for apps and their updates, that perhaps shipped with a corresponding tool that was apt wrt getting those updates, and also finding new software!
- ErrantX 17y agoI dont think anyone is claiming Apple invented the model. Though perhaps they can get it right for once.
- jrockway 17y agoHopefully. Every time I use apt-get, I wish it charged my credit card money and gave Apple 30%! Maybe they will add that feature for me!
- ErrantX 17y agoI love Linux package managers (most of the time). However: - if you need the very latest versions it can be a pig - no one has yet built a nice, usable and newbie friendly UI yet If Apple can fix the second of those, all power to them :)
- ableal 17y ago> no one has yet built a nice, usable and newbie friendly UI yet The Lindows Click'N'Run store (from 2004 or so ?) didn't look too bad, what with "product aisles" and so on. It mixed the free and commercial apps, too, using the Debian 'apt' tools underneath. It may now be run by Xandros, who bought the company; I haven't looked. (I bought a couple of Xandros releases back in 2003 or so, but didn't like the tight leash they seemed to intend for the customers ;-)
- netcan 17y agoSarcasm is not necessarily wit. This kind of pedantry about things like invention that hold weight on this site is silly, worse it's bureaucratic.