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It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. It may be a cultivated garden, but there are no walls. You can go download, build, restore, or othe

It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. It may be a cultivated garden, but there are no walls. You can go download, build, restore, or otherwise use the software you like. I used a very expensive 2019 Intel Macbook Pro, and then an M1, not even the pro line. There was a big difference, the M1 build times were half and that turned directly into better productivity.

traceroute66 4y ago
> It seems disingenuous to me to call MacOS a walled garden. "Disingeneous" is polite, I'd say its BS because you can tell someone is an Apple basher when they start banging on about "walled garden". MacOS at its heart is BSD. If you download Xcode from the App store, then that installs a bunch of CLI tools as well, including make. And thus, having installed make you can .... Yes, that's right, compile your own software. Or just use brew if you don't fancy compiling stuff. You are of course, also welcome to download Go, Rust or anything else and compile stuff in those languages too. Then, whilst you're at it, you can download VMware Fusion or Parallels and run Linux or Windows or any other OS of your choice. Walled Garden ... yeah right !