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Used to be that macOS had really decent experiences to offer for both users and developers. Not any more. Now both are being tortured, just as with Microsoft. I really don't see a big difference any more. When my computer destroys my data and pumps off my money, I really don't give a shit whether it's Apple or Microsoft doing the abuse.
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> Valve basically single handedly created Linux gaming. Valve's influence has been immensely positive for Linux gaming but saying they created it is ridiculous. I was playing on Linux just fine before Steam was ported. Valve's contributions very much stand on top of the efforts of those that came before them.
> I was playing [games] on Linux just fine before Steam was ported. Yeah, all 4 of them!
The number of available games has increased greatly but before S4L was released I already had a backlog of games to play.
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No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
And yet here we are...
Apparently my comment got flagged, maybe it needed a link. I assumed everyone would get it. Oh well. (For reference: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=no+wireless+less+space+than+a+noma... )
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I also have my own experience with rejection: You used/included word Contacts in name of the app; this is a trademark of Apple. My app used word Contacts before apple renamed their AddressBook to Contacts.app on macOS. I used appeal with link to their list of trademarks. I am pointing out that humans do many errors and sometimes your app is in review for 2 weeks (2019) for no reason (minor update). Happened to me and…
Not trying to blame you at all for what happened, but for my benefit as a developer and for anyone else reading, did you ever apply for a trademark or consider it? I'd love to know the details of how that worked out if you did.
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I first check brew...
Yeah, this. MacOS is unusable without home-brew, especially cask. There is no greater feeling than knowing you can blow away your system disk, come back and re-install it, then add a "brew cask install .." stage to get all your apps installed automatically. If I had brew on iOS, I'd be more than happy. Alas, I don't want to jailbreak though ..
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Yeah, this. MacOS is unusable without home-brew, especially cask. There is no greater feeling than knowing you can blow away your system disk, come back and re-install it, then add a "brew cask install .." stage to get all your apps installed automatically. If I had brew on iOS, I'd be more than happy. Alas, I don't want to jailbreak though ..
Serious question to get you thinking about your toolset dependencies. Is MacOS useless without it, or are you?
I just find MacOS 100x more useful because of homebrew, and frustrating without it.
The reason is, I can blow away the OS, restore a fresh install, and then re-install everything I need with a single command. This is highly empowering: I don't have to be a mouse-monkey to get everything set up, and can do other things meanwhile.
Doesn't mean MacOS is 'bad' - sure, others can get their systems set up however they want. App Store installs are fine, if you have the time to sit there, driving your system through everything ..
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Yeah, this. MacOS is unusable without home-brew, especially cask. There is no greater feeling than knowing you can blow away your system disk, come back and re-install it, then add a "brew cask install .." stage to get all your apps installed automatically. If I had brew on iOS, I'd be more than happy. Alas, I don't want to jailbreak though ..
Maybe unusable for those that think macOS is GNU/Linux with a pretty UI. I never installed any of those alternative UNIX toolchains. Apple SDK + native macOS tooling are more than enough.
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Yeah, this. MacOS is unusable without home-brew, especially cask. There is no greater feeling than knowing you can blow away your system disk, come back and re-install it, then add a "brew cask install .." stage to get all your apps installed automatically. If I had brew on iOS, I'd be more than happy. Alas, I don't want to jailbreak though ..
Unusable for you, maybe. But I'm sure the majority of people use MacOS without homebrew and find it perfectly usable for their use cases.
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> You are the one making those claims as otherwise it weakens the iOS über all assertion. Nonsense. > N95 was just one example of the millions of Symbian, J2ME and PocketPC/WindowsCE smartphones being shipped before iOS became reality. And none of them are around now. More to the point, all but a handful could be considered 'smart'. We could debate what smart is, but ultimately it's moot. Pre 2007, 'smart' devices we…
Nokia is happily selling Android devices, after surviving Elop's management and guess how much market share Android has worldwide. Apparently everyone on Europe was a business person when using Nokia and Sony phones, go figure.
Actually; now that I think about it, from a user perspective I also really dislike the App Store. I used to _love_ it, I would check weekly for new things, maybe there was some new shiny (often beautiful) program to do something really well. The experience was on the 'better than passable' side, nobodies favourite interface maybe, but certainly not terrible. But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacO…
Nice apps I liked were bought and monetized in EXTREMELY UNETHICAL ways.
For one example, I had an app called gas cubby, which let me locally - on the phone - keep track of all my vehicles. I could enter detailed information about each car such as year, make, model, vin, insurance policy, gas purchases, oil changes and the like. It would tell you gas mileage and remind you of upcoming maintenance.
One day, the app was updated and all my local data was uploaded to the cloud.
Another app, camscanner plus purchased by tencent basically did the same thing.
Apple gives you no control over what the apps do. You can argue the finer points, but:
- you cannot determine what apps are doing. are they intercepting URLs browsed in safari, mail or imessage? (deep linking)
- you cannot determine when they are active. are they waking up using some "backdoor" method such as notifications
- you can not prevent them from accessing the network. this is the big one. You can't find out who they are talking to or prevent it.
Really it's a shame because one rule of economics is: with trust trade becomes unrestricted.