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I'm all for OS X adopting more and more of iOS because it's great for the user experience. However as a hacker it feels wrong to have a computer that is as lock

I'm all for OS X adopting more and more of iOS because it's great for the user experience. However as a hacker it feels wrong to have a computer that is as locked down as iOS devices. BUT Apple showed me that they are listening and still want to cater to developers when they announced GateKeeper (http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html). I have a few friends who are switching to Unix instead of Mac OS X because of the direction it's going. For me, it's going to be all about how much Apple allows developers to innovate on their platform. We'll see what happens, but GateKeeper is a good sign.

un1xl0ser 15y ago
I agree that I don't like where it is going, but we aren't really the target audience. I was looking to get CrunchBang Linux running on my MBP, but realistically the battery life change will make the device hard to justify. If I am going to go back to 2-3 hours of battery life, I'm probably going to have to change my hardware setup to get a Thinkpad with a pair of nine cells. That said, I can't even flip my virtualization set-up, because I doubt that it is going to be smooth sailing (license-wise and technically) running a copy of OS X in VirtualBox or VMware.