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You know that you could just… provide that reason and get approved, right? Apple isn’t banning the use of these APIs. It just requires you as a developer to ac

You know that you could just… provide that reason and get approved, right? Apple isn’t banning the use of these APIs. It just requires you as a developer to actually be transparent and honest about the things that could potentially fingerprint a user. To make that sound like a bad thing because you’re lightly inconvenienced is an interesting take.

amiga386 3y ago
Maybe this is just a clash of cultures, but I expect to type "gcc myprog.c" on one computer, give the resulting executable to someone running the same hardware+OS, and have it just work. I don't want to be forced to enter into a contract with Apple and pay them fees to be permitted to produce software that can run on my friends' computers. I don't want them to be able, with the snap of their fingers, to remotely disable all software I've ever made, for whatever reason they deem just, like if I besmirched the good name of their leader on Twitter. I think Apple's an awful company slowly enclosing the commons that is general purpose computing, so that it make phat bank by forcing itself as a middleman between anyone who uses their hardware and anyone who writes software for those people. I don't encourage anyone to use Apple products so I write software that can be used on almost any platform, but can also be used on Apple if you compile it correctly. Hence why stat() piques my interest, and some obj-c/swift nonsense does not. I resent any further restrictions on distribution or usage. I should not have to justify myself or my code to Apple. I should have to justify myself to the users that be run it, and the user should have all the tools necessary to see what I'm doing in my code (e.g. wouldn't it be nice if macos hadn't crippled dtruss by default) I don't think it's a light inconveniencing. I think it's further encroachment on the freedom to run any software on your computer for any purpose, being done to privately enrich Apple, under the marketing guise of benefit to their users.
- sebzim4500 3y ago
  I don't use a mac. Is it really not possible to run arbitrary executables any more? How can they be so popular with developers?
  - meepmorp 3y ago
    Of course you can run arbitrary executables on a Mac. You can also get their toolchain for free and use that, or you can install gcc or other compilers that support Macs.

amiga386 3y ago

Maybe this is just a clash of cultures, but I expect to type "gcc myprog.c" on one computer, give the resulting executable to someone running the same hardware+OS, and have it just work. I don't want to be forced to enter into a contract with Apple and pay them fees to be permitted to produce software that can run on my friends' computers. I don't want them to be able, with the snap of their fingers, to remotely disable all software I've ever made, for whatever reason they deem just, like if I besmirched the good name of their leader on Twitter. I think Apple's an awful company slowly enclosing the commons that is general purpose computing, so that it make phat bank by forcing itself as a middleman between anyone who uses their hardware and anyone who writes software for those people. I don't encourage anyone to use Apple products so I write software that can be used on almost any platform, but can also be used on Apple if you compile it correctly. Hence why stat() piques my interest, and some obj-c/swift nonsense does not. I resent any further restrictions on distribution or usage. I should not have to justify myself or my code to Apple. I should have to justify myself to the users that be run it, and the user should have all the tools necessary to see what I'm doing in my code (e.g. wouldn't it be nice if macos hadn't crippled dtruss by default) I don't think it's a light inconveniencing. I think it's further encroachment on the freedom to run any software on your computer for any purpose, being done to privately enrich Apple, under the marketing guise of benefit to their users.

sebzim4500 3y ago
I don't use a mac. Is it really not possible to run arbitrary executables any more? How can they be so popular with developers?
- meepmorp 3y ago
  Of course you can run arbitrary executables on a Mac. You can also get their toolchain for free and use that, or you can install gcc or other compilers that support Macs.