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They have been working on locking those down too, even before they announced the switch to ARM, which will continue this trend.
by emsy 6y ago
They have been working on locking those down too, even before they announced the switch to ARM, which will continue this trend.
- tptacek 6y agoPeople have been this since Apple first launched the iOS app store. It plays well on message boards. So far, it has done a terrible job of describing reality.
- emsy 6y agoThey are boiling the frog slowly. The T2, app notorization and kext depreciation are steps towards locking the device down. Combined with the iPhone-ification of their hardware I see the Mac becoming more like the iPad than the iPad becoming a general purpose computer.
- saagarjha 6y agoI'd call it a "not great" job at describing reality–Macs today are certainly more locked-down than they were five or ten years ago, but I think it would be unfair to compare them to iOS right now.
- ubermonkey 6y agoI'm gonna need actual examples. There is nothing on my Mac that prevents me from downloading and running absolutely anything I want, or from writing my own software and running it. By default, there are security guardrails in place that you have to turn off (one click!), but I 100% support measures like this. It means it's harder for nontechnical people get duped into running nefarious code, but creates no meaningful roadblock to people like HN readers who quite reasonably want to do whatever the hell they like with their computers.