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Why do so many in tech buy into a walled garden and then bitch about it later? I could say whinge but it doesn't quite convey what I'm seeing here.

• kalleboo 6y ago
  We want our cake and to eat it too
• _qulr 6y ago
  The problem is that we didn't buy into a walled garden. Mac OS X was an open platform from 2000 until 2012, when Gatekeeper was added, ostensibly for security. It's very difficult if you've invested in a platform for many years, and then the platform slowly transforms into something different.
  • waheoo 6y ago
    Its 2020. Apple has been hostile to openness since inception, see: right to repair or basically any Louis Rossman video on YouTube. Not to mention years of news stories showing how little apple cares for developers or individuals.
    • _qulr 6y ago
      Has Apple become increasingly hostile? Yes. Since inception? No. For example, my MacBook Pro from 2007 had a user-replaceable battery. I just popped the old one out, popped the new one in, 15 seconds, it was brilliant.
      • waheoo 6y ago
        Oh come off it. Those user replaceable batteries were expensive as hell. It's cheaper to replace a MacBook air battery than it is to replace one of those old cartridge things, of which you could only buy from Apple.