5 ms·

If suddenly every Linux laptop anywhere in the world turned into a MacBook, everyone would smile quietly and start configuring it. Lies. If my Linux laptop tur

If suddenly every Linux laptop anywhere in the world turned into a MacBook, everyone would smile quietly and start configuring it. Lies. If my Linux laptop turned into a Macbook Pro, I'd reformat it and turn it back into a Linux laptop. I used to think that Apple maintained a dichotomy between their iOS arena and their OSX arena. iOS was locked down and OSX was more open. But the introduction of the app. store for OSX, and the pressure placed upon software developers to sell through that app. store shows me that Apple does not draw a distinction between iOS and OSX. It appears that the openness of OSX is a historical artifact, and that if they could get away with locking down OSX as much as they lock down iOS, they would.

its_so_on 15y ago
"If my Linux laptop turned into a Macbook Pro, I'd reformat it and turn it back into a Linux laptop" -- in other words, exactly what I said. And then you would end up with a rocking Linux macbook. There are bussinesspeople that run windows on their macbooks, just because it's such great hardware.
gte910h 15y ago
>pressure placed upon software developers to sell through that app To be fair, I haven't heard of any pressure at all. It's just a very nice platform to ALSO distribute through, as it handles updates far better than many other platforms. You certainly can distribute outside of that.