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The funny thing is, replace PC with tablet, replace mainframe with PC, replace Windows with Android and your story still holds true. History doesn't repeat its
by quanticle 13y ago
The funny thing is, replace PC with tablet, replace mainframe with PC, replace Windows with Android and your story still holds true.
History doesn't repeat itself. But it sure does rhyme.
- 72deluxe 13y agoThis is very very true. I see the "multiple users" feature they introduced a few dot versions ago in Android and thought it was useful (perhaps?) but then they are implementing all of Linux's features on top of Linux.... makes me chuckle
- XorNot 13y agoThere is a good reason for this though - to some extent Android treats every "app" as a separate unix user running in it's own account space, as I understand it.
- 72deluxe 13y agoAh yes, it does. So I suppose it is good that Android is implementing this on top of it, but it still seems like massive effort to duplicate lower level features due to lack of foresight during initial Android system design.
- XorNot 13y agoTo some extent I prefer the Android model. Cryptolocker has got me thinking about the security of my backups, and one uncomfortable realization is that it's quite difficult on any remote system to create a folder and say "I need to re-issue my password to use this folder" without making it owned by root. (Although I'd be really happy to know if a "user-level sudo" is possible).