zapzupnz

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   by zapzupnz 8y ago

   Indeed. This is just Apple's usual tactic of eating their own dog food, the same way that Finder used to be a Carbon app just to demonstrate that Carbon was viable at a time when classic Mac OS developers were hesitant to move to Mac O
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   by zapzupnz 8y ago

   I wouldn't say they don't want to modernise it. They have a theming engine that can use some other frameworks' GUIs to provide theming (like GTK+, Windows, and probably Cocoa) — but most distributions only have a hideously an
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   by zapzupnz 8y ago

   But the vast majority of internet users do use Google search and other Google products like Gmail. That's how Chrome became popular — because Google will spam you with ads for Chrome at every available opportunity.
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   by zapzupnz 8y ago

   But at the very least, Apple lets users disable automatic update (and always have, always will). The default is automatic updates, but it's far from forced.
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   by zapzupnz 8y ago

   Because there's an implication of childishness (yes, amongst children), that one might be mollycoddled by one's parents who do not let them move on to more seemingly "adult" underwear such as boxer shorts.