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Not while ARM is synonymous with ‘locked down, dumbed down, and touch-centric’
by bluescrn 8y ago
Not while ARM is synonymous with ‘locked down, dumbed down, and touch-centric’
- pjmlp 8y agoThe PC clone market was a side effect of a strategy mistake from IBM. Apple, Atari, Amiga, Acorn were quite different.
- bluescrn 8y agoA beautiful mistake that led to an open and competitive PC market. While Windows dominated, the availability of PC hardware allowed the growth of Linux, too. And I’m saying that as somebody who was a huge Amiga fan back in the day, and moved quite reluctantly to PCs after that. Any new platform these days is likely to be user-hostile: locked down, tied to a monopolistic App Store, disallowing development without special permission, and abusing secure boot tech to lock out alternative operating systems. So we should be fighting to keep the traditional Intel-based PC alive, as we’re unlikely to see anything like it again!
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI totally agree with what you're saying, but sadly I don't think the average user actually cares about these issues.