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Many of them are hardware which is understandable. It would be nice, but perhaps hard to do, to have a list of "sherlocked" apps and services.
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I always thought it was strange how intolerant Homebrew is of users who are not surfing the bleeding edge. I held out using MacPorts for ages, but there came a point when I just could not reasonably expect to find the software I needed on MacPorts, but could on Homebrew, and so I switched. I wish Homebrew hadn't won that particular mindshare war. Moving from MacPorts to Homebrew felt like downgrading from an actual p…
The good news is that MacPorts is IMO better than ever. I previously did the MacPorts -> Homebrew switch, but recently moved back and am very happy with MacPorts.
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Apple could easily support eGPUs if they wanted to, but they choose to have vertical integration over fragmentation or usefulness. It's the same as them not supporting OpenGL or Vulkan: they could if they wanted to be a better gaming/porting target, but compatibility of any sort is not a priority.
Apple did recently approve drivers for both nvidia and amd, but not for gaming purposes. Apple supported OpenGL plenty, just that the world moved. Apple created metal, shortly after Vulkan was created. "They could support it if they wanted to" is almost a tautology. Of course they could. But then they have to support another thing. They are on the hook when something goes wrong.
It's the first positive sign in a decade but also almost entirely unrelated to what people would consider supporting AMD and Nvidia cards.
The whole premise of this site is very negative and pessimistic in nature. Why the emphasis on "killed", rather than "innovated" or "created"? The expectation should not be for products to last for ever. And for each product that happened, more products came after that were inspired by it.
Not everyone has the urge to replace absolutely everything with the same deal but with a positive spin. Lottery factor, unaliving etc.
Google's list is pretty extreme though.
Aperture is the only Apple software I miss. Sometimes I feel they killed 32bits app too soon
Hacker news holds Apple and Google to different standards, so I doubt this post will get much traction. (I'm still angry about how I must use an iPhone if I want to be able to text high quality video to people I don't know very well)
> I'm still angry about how I must use an iPhone if I want to be able to text high quality video to people I don't know very well You’re mad at the wrong people in this case though. iMessage can do high quality video and images because it’s a separate channel from the telecoms. RCS can now do high quality video and images too because it’s a newer standard and was built for that (and iPhones do support RCS now). But f…
Apple is clearly the bad guy on the RCS issue.
They removed the speed and pitch adjuster in QuickTime player, some time in the past decade, I forget when. That was a useful feature to me. It's not on the site, and I don't care _quite_ enough to figure out how to add it. That's the problem with built-in software that "does it all" and crowds out the market for other software. One day it might not do it all. (VLC can do this, but not as simply as I used to be able…
PSA - Ford killed the Model T. Big whoop.
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The good news is that MacPorts is IMO better than ever. I previously did the MacPorts -> Homebrew switch, but recently moved back and am very happy with MacPorts.
I never moved to Homebrew, and never understood the appeal. It’s refreshing to see people coming back to MacPorts after the last decade.
Regarding the appeal, this probably exists in Mac Ports, I do not know since you guys reminded me it still existed, but Brewfile lets me provision a new Mac very efficiently.