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You want your pocket machine to be a Macintosh; Apple wants your desktop machine to be an iPhone. (I might just be ten percent more cynical than usual, because
by kps 12y ago
You want your pocket machine to be a Macintosh; Apple wants your desktop machine to be an iPhone.
(I might just be ten percent more cynical than usual, because, having just opened iBooks for the first time to download the Swift manual, it — without asking — ‘imported’ a raft of other ebooks, destroying my file name and folder structure. My files don't belong to an ‘application’, they belong to me.)
- voltagex_ 12y agoI am very afraid of the day where I can't get a general-purpose computer anymore. The best pocket machine I've ever had was a Nokia N900. I strongly believe in "if you don't have root, you don't own it".
- Tloewald 12y agoI'm sure there are people who thought the same of microcode, bootstrap code, or whatever. We all operate at some level of abstraction.
- prutschman 12y agoIt's an important distinction whether the abstraction is designed to facilitate the user's operation of the hardware or interfere with it.
- Tloewald 12y agoDefine "facilitate" to everyone's satisfaction. By my definition, Apple has done more to facilitate people's use of computer hardware than any other single company.