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The fun thing is that Mac OS X don't have the same restrictions as iOS.
by yuhong 10y ago
The fun thing is that Mac OS X don't have the same restrictions as iOS.
- AceJohnny2 10y agoYou'd think, but considering how much shared code they have between the different systems, they ended up following their maximum constraints. Thank god, then, for HomeBrew/MacPorts/Fink/et. al. A 'chsh' and I can have a modern Bash as a shell.
- saurik 10y agoYet. (One way to accomplish this will be merging the operating systems, and the other way is continuing the march to making these restrictions more and more similar.)
- toyg 10y agoA default OSX install these days will only allow sandboxed installs from AppStore, or unsandboxed from developers registered with Apple. The jump from that to "only Appstore" is not that big and sooner or later will happen, it's mostly a commercial issue. Some time after that, the various options to change these policies will go away, and you will be left with something very similar to iOS in terms of lockdown. Seriously, mobile dragged us back to the bad old days of the '80s and basically made sure IBM clones and DOS couldn't exist. We're all screwed.
- pjmlp 10y agoI had fun in those days. The computers were a packaged experience of hardware and software, designed to work together. Hence why people have found memories of their 8 or 16 bit systems, while most might not even remember how their MS-DOS systems looked like or what OEM brand it was.
- CodeWriter23 10y agoI know. And then came the malware.
- pjmlp 10y agoWhich doesn't have anything to do with PCs, MS-DOS and being open.
- toyg 10y agoYeah: four different manufacturers, four different spreadsheet programs. Loads of fun, that was - not. We will soon look back to the Microsoft era as a golden age where you only had to avoid getting milked by one company, rather than every single one out there.