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From article: "Rather than adopting open standards in their operating systems, they started focusing on developing their own, intended to work within their own
by auslander 7y ago
From article: "Rather than adopting open standards in their operating systems, they started focusing on developing their own, intended to work within their own ecosystem only."
I'm glad they did. MacOS is more clean and secure than Windows and Linux, and is a primary driver for Apple hardware sales. You can make Linux almost as secure, with enough tinkering, but it is not out of the box experience. Think Gatekeeper code signing.
- moring 7y agoAre there even good examples of "intended to work within their own ecosystem only"? I'm constantly surprised to the extent Apple embraces openness and interoperability (compared to my personal expectation of what they would do). It seems to me that they just totally ignore it in favor of building a "perfect" (by their own definition) product. If anything, I would describe that behavior as "extreme NIH syndrome".
- auslander 7y agoYou lost me here. What behaviour?
- lowdose 7y agoNot Invented Here.
- starsinspace 7y ago> Are there even good examples of "intended to work within their own ecosystem only"? AirDrop, AirPlay, iMessage, FaceTime