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> Apple is quietly but surely increasing its control on macOS. That definitely makes it a less desirable desktop OS. I mean this has been the conversation sinc
by bluedino 1y ago
> Apple is quietly but surely increasing its control on macOS. That definitely makes it a less desirable desktop OS.
I mean this has been the conversation since the early days of Mac OS. I didn't get back to Mac until Snow Leopard but I remember the uproar over removing Java in 10.7
- seec 1y agoThe situation today is not really comparable. Between the fully locked down hardware and many OS limitations it is much worse than it has ever been. I mean now you cannot open a 3rd party software without going into settings to allow opening, another regression on previously needing to right click, open. The next step is forbidding any unsigned software altogether. And finally, forbidding any software that doesn't come from their fully controlled App Store. It's really way beyond not shipping a software component directly in the system...
- dwaite 1y agoThe removal of Java was perhaps the best example of people expecting Apple's obsolescence policy to be the same as Windows, and getting burned. There were large software vendors who had not yet started on a strategy around the deprecation of Java until it was removed from the OS. They didn't look like they even noticed it had been removed in betas and come up with a plan on what to tell customers.