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I 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 plat
by djacobs 15y ago
I 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.