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I dont' get the fear that because some elements of iOS are added to Lion, it means its getting dumbed down. I've used Lion for a bit over a month now (in beta
by ethank 15y ago
I dont' get the fear that because some elements of iOS are added to Lion, it means its getting dumbed down.
I've used Lion for a bit over a month now (in beta and release), and beyond some changes for the better in terms of my workflow (gestures for spaces, etc), nothing really changed. Ruby runs fine, autotest, Spork, git, etc.
The things that are great, like Spaces and Mission Control (nearly) have made things easier. The system is a bit faster than it was before, and I don't have to install a bunch of mods to get rid of Aqua.
But really, nothing got dumber or smarter. It changed, and mostly for the better. My wife likes it better, as do my parents. It makes more sense to them. My dad for instance never got the hang of the Applications folder, so he loves Launchpad.
Until you can write iOS apps on an iOS device, OSX as we know it and use it isn't going anywhere, but I welcome it getting easier on the surface for others.
- djacobs 15y agoI would agree, except when such ease of use comes at the expense of your standard (or more experienced than standard) techie. It's my opinion that the Mac platform has been able to succeed because of its developers, and its developers flocked to the platform because it made coding so fun (and full of Unix goodness). (For more thoughts along those lines, see The Art of Unix Programming.) Hiding the Library & System folders isn't terrible, because it's easy for me to undo. However, requiring me to type in my password every time I move an application tells me that Apple is going in the wrong direction here, a direction that only hurts developers and, by extension, its own platform.
- ethank 15y agoHow? Protection against something for 99% of users causes inconvenience to 1%. Maybe. But it makes the platform more useful for those 99% who make up the economic ecosystem for the 1% using osx for profit. Protection of the apps folder is great.
- djacobs 15y agoAs I say, taking steps that make life harder for engineers & techies will eventually drive us away. I'm pretty sure that Apple has been successful because it's fostered a developer community, and if it stops fostering that, it's success could be a very reversible phenomenon.
- ethank 15y agoBut again: how is it driving you away? Apple dogfoods everything they do internally and evidence points to their 5000+ engineers being more picky than anyone. Marble (Xcode 4) is evidence of this. If anything, making an Os more suited for the average user is better for the dev community at large. Not worse.