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You do realize that there are millions of satisfied Mac, iPhone, and iPad customers out there, right? The profits speak for themselves: clearly there is value b
by otterley 6y ago
You do realize that there are millions of satisfied Mac, iPhone, and iPad customers out there, right? The profits speak for themselves: clearly there is value both for freedom and for security. And it never was a binary question anyway.
Besides, you can still run non-notarized binaries if you want to. The UI does make it difficult, but not impossible.
If you want a totally open computer, that's fine (to the extent you don’t spread it via negligence), but everything has tradeoffs. If you're comfortable with the risk of malware, that's also fine; but not everyone is -- and certainly not the business world.
- banachtarski 6y ago> Besides, you can still run non-notarized binaries if you want to. The UI does make it difficult, but not impossible. On ios and ipad (from your first sentence) you cannot.
- hungryforcodes 6y agoThat is fine. And now, because of this, many of us are now considering not having Apple in our tech future. And that is fine too.
- RonanTheGrey 6y agoYou're making the assumption the "average buyer" knows anything about this issue, which is incredibly unlikely. Therefore, their buying decisions are not made based on it. I think a good goal would be to scream it as loud as possible and make sure people are buying it based on this dimension as well.