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Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by zelly »

lucb1e wrote: post #2

This makes me wonder how open source is supposed to work on macOS. People seem to become more and more aware of it and even enterprises that insisted on support contracts can see that they can't get around open source completely anymore. Meanwhile Apple is removing the ability for me to have a pet project without paying an Apple tax. If the message were completely transparent, something like "The developer didn't pay…

> I also can't imagine $100 is easy to come up with in countries below level 4[1].

Apple has as low as 0% penetration in those countries. The market has solved this problem. They still use technology; there are alternative platforms. Android, Windows, ChromeOS, KaiOS, and desktop Linux (which has as high as 5% market share in India) are cheap to use and develop for. It was always going to end up this way. There's the brand for the haves and the brand for the have-nots. Although even people on welfare in the United States have iPhones, consider that they're still the elite in global terms.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by rglullis »

raverbashing wrote: post #440
bluescrn wrote: post #408

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But when a company makes such shiny and popular devices they seem exempt from any usual criticisms of hypercapitalism and near-monopoly power

Well the other hypercapitalists sell a product that sucks and sure, it lets you run other stuff, but it absolutely tramples on your privacy and is still, for the most part, worse in all aspects. (and yes the keyboard issues were very close to tipping the scales) I wish the choice was simple, but it isn't.

If only we had an operating system that we could install on our computers freely, right?

It is a shame that people are forced to buy a computer and not reformat the disk to install their OS of choice. It is a shame that we can not take the money that we could be saving and investing in open alternatives...

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by solarkraft »

saagarjha wrote: post #393
m463 wrote: post #341

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rootless.h in bash seems to be related to system integrity protection. Don't know why Apple doesn't just devote 1 engineer to do something like homebrew or macports. Their ROI just on hardware sales will be very high. Maybe all the unix guys retired or left and there are only round window corner xcode guys left.

Apple does have a handful of engineers working with/on open source projects; whether is a part of their official job duties I don’t know. But it is much appreciated. However, to the person doing open source tarballs: please respond to emails and be quicker about uploading thankyouverymuch

> whether is a part of their official job duties I don’t know

Certainly. From what I've read here on HN you basically can't publish a line of code (or even star things on Github) ob your own, presumably for secrecy reasons.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by rimliu »

thinkloop wrote: post #357
Gorbzel wrote: post #347

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PWAs are terrible, but that debate has nothing on the real gem here: > ...Then why does Apple advertise its products using Google Ads? Congratulations, this cracks top 5 oddest Apple hater argument ever posted in this land of many of 'em.

> PWAs are terrible Why again? In the world of silos and proprietary platforms it's an absolute godsend that PWAs even exist.

You know, I grew up in USSR. There were no western made cars, only soviet ones: Ladas (based on 40 years old FIAT), Volgas, the dreaded Moskvich or Zaporozhets. Volgas were for the elite and not really accessible for the ordinary citizens, so Lada was it. And it seemed to be a fine car—because you did not know any better. Yes you had to reassemble it yourself after you bought one to make sure it does not fall apart on the road, but otherwise the seemed fine. That's till the USSR collapsed and western old cars markets got accessible. Almost all soviet cars were replaced by the old, mostly German, ones. Why? Because poeple saw the differenece. And the saw that even 15-20 years old Audi, BMW or Opel were still waaay better than brand new soviet crap. So yeah, there are thing that may seem fine till you hava a chance to compare them to the truly fine.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by hrktb »

spideymans wrote: post #306
kjksf wrote: post #80

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Apple has been making things more and more restrictive over a decade now. New versions of mac os introducing new restrictions. Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. When that happens, will it still be the right spot for you?

>Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. I've been hearing that for the past decade. With the exception of some reasonably deprecated technologies (32-bit support, etc...), to this day I'm able to run essentially all of the software on my Mac that I did back in 2010. If and when Apple does prohibit the running of third party apps, I'll switch to another platform. Unti…

> I'll switch to another platform

What makes me sad is there is nowhere to switch to seamlessly.

The writing has been on the wall since gatekeeper was introduced, but we stayed because there is just no better option. Some options are viable, but require sacrificing a decent chunk of the comfort we have now. It's the eternal waiting for the "year of desktop linux" except we moved the goalpost to laptop linux, battery performance, commercial third party support etc.

The funny thing being that people who didn't have these frictions already switched and will say "just do it, it's easy". But we won't have a choice anyway.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by cryptica »

40four wrote: post #348

Man, I really love my Macbook pro. Such a nice piece of hardware, and the OS is a joy to use. But the more and more I learn about about their business practices, the more I wonder if they are really in line with my own values, and the more I think about how much benefit I really gain from the OS. Probably not as much as I used to think. I'm starting to realize something. I'm almost certain I would be just as happy wi…

I highly recommend Kubuntu. It looks ugly initially but you can customize it to look really good. There is even an OSX theme that you can download.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

Also importantly Apple consider it legitimate to refuse to notarise apps if you break unrelated rules that have nothing to do with distributing malware and don't give any reason to think you're shipping anything dangerous. This was part of their threat to Epic Games.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by mcv »

mistersquid wrote: post #371
saagarjha wrote: post #142

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In theory no, that's impossible. In practice, I publish checksums on my website and people trust that I am not malicious.

> I publish checksums on my website and people trust that I am not malicious. Users who know how to verify checksums know how to work around unnotarized Mac apps.

It would be nice if the OS automatically verified these checksums. That would have been a nice OS X feature, but instead Apple ignores the verification process that already exists and invents their own, with themselves in control.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by yardstick »

vincnetas wrote: post #457
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #426

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Like all other legitimate software on MacOS; they get a developer account and distribute it via the app store. For years, Windows got laughed at by EVERYONE because there was so much malware on it - in part because of its laissez-faire approach to letting the user install anything from anywhere. Mac went for the closed garden approach and there's hardly any malware, adware, scareware or whatever -ware you can think o…

You know that you could install on mac anything you wanted before appstore, and they were similarly malware free as now with appstore

What about Android vs iPhone malware levels? I believe there’s a lot more Android malware than iPhone/iPad.

I mention this since these stores are more comparable in size than Mac v Windows.

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