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Sooner or later they give in and follow Apple in a lot of things

by szundi 2y ago

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
Hopefully not. I'd hate to be infantalized and told what I can and can't run on my own device.
- bitwize 2y ago
  If you write a program that can run on a 386, you can run it easily on your brand-new octa-core Ryzen -- with a whole bunch of other stuff, more than if you had left the program unoptimized. Similarly, if you build a system that unintelligent people can use, intelligent people have that much more brain power not used up fucking with the system. There are plenty of smart people who don't mind Apple forbidding them from running certain software: they're not interested in running that software in the first place, and it eliminates entire classes of malicious or undesirable software that they simply don't have to worry about. That's why many of the smartest people I know are all-in on the Apple ecosystem. See graph: NOOOOO! Muh user freedoms! ------ / \ -- -- / \ -- -- / \ / \ / \ Just buy / \ Just buy Apple ---- ---- Apple ---- ----
MBCook 2y ago
Apple has had these policies forever. They _barely_ seem to enforce them. The App Store could probably get a 50% culling with little impact. There’s TONS of broken garbage, scam apps, least effort apps, blatant ripoffs of blatant ripoffs. I really liked the idea of a curated App Store when Apple first announced it. In my mind I’ve never lived up to it. Not fully open, not well maintained. The worst of both worlds.

Sooner or later they give in and follow Apple in a lot of things

by szundi 2y ago

Sooner or later they give in and follow Apple in a lot of things

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago

Hopefully not. I'd hate to be infantalized and told what I can and can't run on my own device.

bitwize 2y ago
If you write a program that can run on a 386, you can run it easily on your brand-new octa-core Ryzen -- with a whole bunch of other stuff, more than if you had left the program unoptimized. Similarly, if you build a system that unintelligent people can use, intelligent people have that much more brain power not used up fucking with the system. There are plenty of smart people who don't mind Apple forbidding them from running certain software: they're not interested in running that software in the first place, and it eliminates entire classes of malicious or undesirable software that they simply don't have to worry about. That's why many of the smartest people I know are all-in on the Apple ecosystem. See graph: NOOOOO! Muh user freedoms! ------ / \ -- -- / \ -- -- / \ / \ / \ Just buy / \ Just buy Apple ---- ---- Apple ---- ----

MBCook 2y ago

Apple has had these policies forever. They _barely_ seem to enforce them. The App Store could probably get a 50% culling with little impact. There’s TONS of broken garbage, scam apps, least effort apps, blatant ripoffs of blatant ripoffs. I really liked the idea of a curated App Store when Apple first announced it. In my mind I’ve never lived up to it. Not fully open, not well maintained. The worst of both worlds.