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OS X is going down the same path as iOS, too: Mountain Lion scolds users for downloading apps without going through the App Store; this can be disabled by diggi
by beedogs 14y ago
OS X is going down the same path as iOS, too: Mountain Lion scolds users for downloading apps without going through the App Store; this can be disabled by digging around in the system settings, but I can envision a day where you'll need to open a terminal to set a system property from the command line, and then a day when they simply disable unsigned binaries from running altogether.
- bitcartel 14y agoSadly, there's a very real possibility that this could happen as Nanny Computing (anyone coined a better term?) is proving to be quite profitable.
- beedogs 14y agoThe switch from x86 to ARM for their entire computing line -- if it happens, as has been rumored -- will be what closes the door on power users.
- TillE 14y agoWhat is Apple going to use for their own work? Their developers and designers are power users. It's certainly possible that the Macbook Air would switch to ARM in the next few years, but until you can write software for an iPad on an iPad, there's no getting away from OS X and serious processors.
- gcr 14y agoWhy? What makes an architecture (ARM) more suited "for the elite" than another slightly more complex architecture (x86)? If anything, power users can just recompile their open-source software for ARM and that will be that.
- emilv 14y agoI see your pun: since ARM uses less power the power users will in fact not be power users anymore!