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> The Mac isn't a "walled garden". On the software side you have Gatekeeper and SIP. On the hardware side you have T2, soldered RAM, their weird custom SSDs, a
by Nullabillity 6y ago
> The Mac isn't a "walled garden".
On the software side you have Gatekeeper and SIP. On the hardware side you have T2, soldered RAM, their weird custom SSDs, and their lawsuits against hackintosh manufacturers.
Yes, there are still ways around some of them, but it's pretty obvious where they want things to go.
- _ph_ 6y agoGatekeeper has been around for 10 years and every year people have predicted you couldn't install software outside of the app store. It never came by. As a development machine, it just wouldn't work.
- userbinator 6y agoThe frog needs to be boiled slowly. Very slowly.
- _ph_ 6y agoNo. For a general purpose machine, especially for developers, you need the ability to access your files freely and to run any program. If that is no longer given, all developers and most users would drop the platform. Also, it completely doesn't make sense as long as you allow virtualisation. Which Apple not only does, they even demoed this capabiltiy in the keynote.
- sokoloff 6y agoLawsuits against hackintosh manufacturers seem fair enough to me.