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That's the exactly the thing - they are, indeed, chasing me off. When this Mac dies, I'll be replacing it with something running Debian. It is too bad - the Ma
by _jal 6y ago
That's the exactly the thing - they are, indeed, chasing me off. When this Mac dies, I'll be replacing it with something running Debian.
It is too bad - the Mac hit this sweet-spot where it was pretty much my perfect machine for several years - a kickass Unix workstation in a decently built laptop, with a decent GUI, with access to consumer apps, too. It was great while it lasted.
Thing is, this is a reasonable thing for Apple to do. Back when they weren't enormous, it made sense for them to at least make token gestures to the Unix-weenie/developer market - we threw a lot of money at them and made them hip when they were down and out. Now we're in rounding-error territory, and that we got what we wanted for a while was sort of a happy accident, anyway. Building developer dream-machines was never Apple's thing.
I bought my first Mac in 1991, and this one will last a while longer. Can't really complain too much about 30 years of decent-to-awesome tools.
- andreareina 6y agoI disagree that it's reasonableness except in the short term. We're seeing a change in developers' opinions; my friends in video production were getting ready to ditch Apple due to their "professional" software and hardware products getting worse both in relative (hardware) and absolute (software) terms. Part of the Apple cachet is that these are professional tools; how long is their reputation going to hold up if those professionals leave the platform? It's a touch of hubris to think that we are and will continue to be taste makers, certainly. Maybe Apple won't get burned by alienating this crowd. But it seems a risky strategy for dubious return.
- MagnumOpus 6y agoBoth the tech-bro and the media production audience are now a rounding error of a rounding error for Apple. It is a consumer luxury brand first and foremost, and it derives 99% of net income from that. Catering to dorks in basements is a tiny legacy business and the support level for it is commensurate. (It probably actually only exists because Apple has its own share of dorks in basements.)
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoThat's assuming nobody cares about the opinions of tech people when they're buying tech. It's not just that tech people are customers, it's that ten other customers will look at what the tech people are carrying and assume they're the ones to know what's good. And developers write code for the platform they actually use first. And spend time fixing the problems with that platform that are keeping other people from using it. Then more non-developers switch to it because it's improving.
- KngFant 6y agoI really thought about this yesterday, and the one program i really miss on linux would be Little Snitch. I need a good application firewall on linux.
- arvinsim 6y agoSounds like a business opportunity...
- dhaavi 6y agoWe're on it: https://safing.io/portmaster/ https://safing.io/portmaster/
- input_sh 6y agoThere's OpenSnitch, but it's a WIP: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
- dhaavi 6y agoWe are working on an alternative for both Linux and Windows: https://safing.io/portmaster/ https://safing.io/portmaster/ Not only is it an application firewall, but also gives you DNS filtering (ie. Pi-Hole basics) and DNS-over-TLS. If you check it out, we'd love to hear some feedback! (Full UI revamp incoming)