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> I literally spent weeks last year grepping the entire Mavericks base installation for hardcoded URLs, domain names and IP addresses and setting up entries in

by wz1000 12y ago

> I literally spent weeks last year grepping the entire Mavericks base installation for hardcoded URLs, domain names and IP addresses and setting up entries in /etc/hosts and NAT rules to hardwire that stuff to 127.0.0.1 I don't know how OSX works, but can't there still be addressed you missed that are hiding in the proprietary code? Also, if you are this worried about security, wouldn't you be better off just using a free OS?

allannienhuis 12y ago
Apple locks in IOS developers to OSX - I'm not aware of any practical way of building IOS apps and submitting them to the app store without running OSX. That doesn't mean you need to use it as your regular personal use OS, but if you're spending your days writing IOS apps you don't have any other choice.
- ganeshkrishnan 12y ago
  As an Android dev who was forced to create my app for IOS because a huge chunk of users are on IOS, the whole process of developing for IOS gave me brain cancer. XCode (like itunes) is a worthless piece of garbage. It's unfucking unbelievable how little this "IDE" accomplishes. And uploading to app store (with certificates, provisioning profiles, launch images, icons etc) sucked all the brain juice out of me. The error messages are even much more cryptic than Windows 95. Why on earth is this piece of locked up abomination so popular? Why are we crying about freedom from government so much and then rushing to buy this crapware?
  - tajen 12y ago
    I dropped Ubuntu after three sequential bad quality upgrades (blocking bugs, lost configuration for upgraded packages, Unity). I won't use Windows because the command line isn't unix-style. Remains Mac OS X. Never had a single day of administration. What we need is open-source with a budget...
  - api 12y ago
    Because for the end user it offers a clean high-quality user experience with minimal friction. That is more powerful than anything else. It's more powerful than cost or freedom, and the developers can suck it. Microsoft was always shit for developers too, but it gave users what they want and users pay.

by wz1000 12y ago

allannienhuis 12y ago

Apple locks in IOS developers to OSX - I'm not aware of any practical way of building IOS apps and submitting them to the app store without running OSX. That doesn't mean you need to use it as your regular personal use OS, but if you're spending your days writing IOS apps you don't have any other choice.

ganeshkrishnan 12y ago
As an Android dev who was forced to create my app for IOS because a huge chunk of users are on IOS, the whole process of developing for IOS gave me brain cancer. XCode (like itunes) is a worthless piece of garbage. It's unfucking unbelievable how little this "IDE" accomplishes. And uploading to app store (with certificates, provisioning profiles, launch images, icons etc) sucked all the brain juice out of me. The error messages are even much more cryptic than Windows 95. Why on earth is this piece of locked up abomination so popular? Why are we crying about freedom from government so much and then rushing to buy this crapware?
- tajen 12y ago
  I dropped Ubuntu after three sequential bad quality upgrades (blocking bugs, lost configuration for upgraded packages, Unity). I won't use Windows because the command line isn't unix-style. Remains Mac OS X. Never had a single day of administration. What we need is open-source with a budget...
- api 12y ago
  Because for the end user it offers a clean high-quality user experience with minimal friction. That is more powerful than anything else. It's more powerful than cost or freedom, and the developers can suck it. Microsoft was always shit for developers too, but it gave users what they want and users pay.