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> I immediately jumped to the conclusion that Apple was “blacklisting” the app for political reasons > Wow, they really don’t want me to open this app! I can'
by DHowett 14y ago
> I immediately jumped to the conclusion that Apple was “blacklisting” the app for political reasons
> Wow, they really don’t want me to open this app!
I can't really imagine why one would instantly jump to the first conclusion, and then after a kernel panic still believe it to be malice on the part of the operating system developer. The instant a kernel panic is thrown into the mix, you barely need to check the crash log to realize that there's something fundamentally incompatible.
I was nearly expecting a follow-up line to say "It looks like Apple is patching the VMware modules at runtime, to cause them to crash!"
> ... it’s worth considering whether they will be tempted to use these powers for less honorable goals.
In addition to the version blacklist described here, there's the much-bandied-about "killswitch" in the iOS app store. In the years since iPhoneOS 2.0, has Apple used it for less honourable goals than platform security?
Come to think of it, has Apple used it at all?
- ryannielsen 14y agoThere is a somewhat justifiable reason for the author to jump to that conclusion – VMware Fusion 4.1 (accidentally?) supports the virtualization of Snow Leopard, which violates Apple's EULA. That feature was very quickly removed in a 4.1.x update. Given that Fusion 4.1.0 is blacklisted while 4.1.3 works fine on Mountain Lion, it's not entirely unreasonable to think that Apple purposefully disabled 4.1.0 to prevent users from virtualizing Snow Leopard against their will. Not the conclusion I would have jumped to right off the bat, but I can see the train of thought.