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You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think
by jama211 9mo ago
You’re very entitled to your opinion, but it should be fairly obvious why this isn’t reasonable from their perspective. Put another way, let’s just say I think apple is glad you’re not making decisions about how their operating system should work. It’s an OS built for users, not those who wish to have iron control over everything. Allowing that would be disastrous for most users just to appease the very small percentage who’d want that.
- duped 9mo agoHow is allowing the user the power to disable software on the device they own "disastrous" for anyone
- ben_w 9mo agoIn general or in this case? I'm also curious about this specific case. In general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0
- fizwidget 9mo agoIt opens the door to tech-illiterate users being tricked into disabling security features, doesn’t it? Not saying I agree with it but I imagine that’s the motivation.
- clickety_clack 9mo agoThat's like saying houses shouldn't have doors in case the unwary are tricked into letting thieves into their homes.
- jama211 9mo agoNo, it’s not.
- jama211 9mo agoSame reason we don’t let people set their banking password to “password”.
- jasonvorhe 9mo agoYou had full root for more than a decade on any macOS machine.
- zapzupnz 9mo agoAnd then you didn't. What's the purpose of saying this? All consumer-operating systems also used to be single user with administrative access by default. Shall we return to that, too?
- explodes 9mo agoThe point of saying this is to let you realize that the last ten years weren't a disaster.
- jama211 9mo agoWe also used to use wep encryption on wifi networks
- wpm 9mo agoWhat is the attack chain enabled by letting me disable the com.apple.mediaanalysisd job?