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Nor did they force any iPad upgrades...sigh
Whether or not Apple "forces" users to update, on current iOS they will prompt users to update on a daily basis and there is no way to turn off those notifications. There is also no way to prevent the automatic downloading of updates unless you block them at a firewall level or have limited free storage space on your device.
The End of OS X
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Re: The End of OS X
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just "use linux" and I get all the benefits with much better hardware (more memory, disk storage, speed for compilation), better drivers (important especially for GPU support for either graphics/rendering work or machine learning) and my downsides are... what exactly? Itunes, Mail, etc, none of the software shipping with MacOS is actually any good. I don't use Safari. From your perspective, what aspect of the "cust…
Applications and hardware drivers on Mac just work. Even Homebrew works pretty nicely. The visuals of Mac are vastly superior to any flavor of Linux I've tried: smooth graphics, font rendering, HiDPI support, etc. Some aspects of Mac hardware (screen, touchpad) are very hard to come by with other manufacturers. At this point I'll probably switch to Linux as soon as my 2015 Macbook stops working, but I would've really…
Same story here
Re: The End of OS X
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am a developer and power user. I am incredibly happy with every update from Apple. Unix with good design is exactly what I want from my OS. Sure I can't disassemble my laptop and change the hardware. I have no desire at all to do that. I literally can think of no reason I personally would want to do this, although I imagine there are a tiny fraction of users who would and you may be among them.
For me the problem can be summed up as: "Every new MacOS release has less Unix and poorer (for a power user) design". Apple has been slowly whittling away at the MacOS value proposition for developers.
> Apple has been slowly whittling away at the MacOS value proposition for developers.
Yes, I think the success of the iDevices have made them change focus. They are no longer interested in making devices for the power user. They now make more money selling iDevices, especially recurrent revenue. And so the ignorant consumers are now their target market.
Re: The End of OS X
#344I personally think that the MacBook Pro 16 inch is the world’s best laptop, and look forward to see what the next generations can do. But the whole point has been MacOS. I’m not sure what to think of the changes. If they stabilize the mess that was Catalina, then they’re doing the right things, even with the increased iOS-ification of the Mac. If they just slap more Windows 8 style touch gloss on deep and unresolvabl…
>inux is only free if your time has no value. I use it as a server OS plenty, but don’t really need it on my desktop. To me this means "I don't know how to get Ubuntu working". Even Arch Linux requires less maintenance for me than my 2013 Macbook Pro did. As soon as you get the setup over with correctly you never have an issue, unless you can't get set it up correctly. Windows is nice when everything works, and if y…
Your argument doesn't really prove anything, you can just flip it around:
Linux is nice when everything works, and if you don't do anything too advanced for your setup and never have an issue it's good. But fixing issues is much easier in Windows than Linux as long as you know what you are doing.
Anything will be easier to do "as long as you know what you are doing."
Re: The End of OS X
#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
Applications and hardware drivers on Mac just work. Even Homebrew works pretty nicely. The visuals of Mac are vastly superior to any flavor of Linux I've tried: smooth graphics, font rendering, HiDPI support, etc. Some aspects of Mac hardware (screen, touchpad) are very hard to come by with other manufacturers. At this point I'll probably switch to Linux as soon as my 2015 Macbook stops working, but I would've really…
> hardware drivers on Mac just work Same for GNU/Linux if you choose the hardware for it (or buy preinstalled).
Until you have to connect to a 12 year old printer at work
Re: The End of OS X
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just "use linux" and I get all the benefits with much better hardware (more memory, disk storage, speed for compilation), better drivers (important especially for GPU support for either graphics/rendering work or machine learning) and my downsides are... what exactly? Itunes, Mail, etc, none of the software shipping with MacOS is actually any good. I don't use Safari. From your perspective, what aspect of the "cust…
Applications and hardware drivers on Mac just work. Even Homebrew works pretty nicely. The visuals of Mac are vastly superior to any flavor of Linux I've tried: smooth graphics, font rendering, HiDPI support, etc. Some aspects of Mac hardware (screen, touchpad) are very hard to come by with other manufacturers. At this point I'll probably switch to Linux as soon as my 2015 Macbook stops working, but I would've really…
Except when they broke most Homebrew installations a few years back (Mojave maybe? Been using Linux for a while now too, that was my tipping point)
Re: The End of OS X
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Apple is a huge Java shop. They're quite secretive but a very large portion (the great majority?) of their backend is Java. OpenJDK has a Linux/AArch64 port, and it will have a macOS/AArch64 port, too.
A lot of Java software is stuck in JDK 1.8. I wonder if anyone will port old versions like this to AArch64 and macOS 11.
Apple has supposedly prepared a patch for OpenJDK to make it work on Apple Silicon.
Re: The End of OS X
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> I want my machine to solve my problems and not get in my way when I am creating solutions. That's literally why I switched to Linux in 2018, after a decade on OS X.
Linux does not solve my problems (as a power user with Linux). It does not work with the proprietary tools I need to do my job and I’ve broken apt way too many times. I’m not remotely interested in debugging this at this stage of my life.
Proprietary tools, I get. But "breaking" linux is something I don't buy.
Re: The End of OS X
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Not sure what that has to do with hardware but I'll bite: users don't care. They don't know what a browser is, what a client is, or an URL or URI or address bar. They want a device that when they turn it on and type in 'tictoc dance dog' it shows them something that resembles what they had in mind. Doesn't matter if it runs WebKit or Gecko or if someone thought it'd be cool to emulate a trident-based engine on iOS on…
> users don't care. They don't know what a browser is, what a client is, or an URL or URI or address bar. All true but irrelevant. The problem is that artificial lack of choice prevents competition and innovation. Microsoft from the 90s is here again. And users don’t care, again. I do not count another UI as a new browser. It should be different under the hood.
> I do not count another UI as a new browser. It should be different under the hood.
Can you imagine any general user ever repeating that? I can't. As those users woud say: nobody cares.
I personally would care, but I'm not the main marketed target for Apple. I also care more about getting stuff done than what engine my browser uses.
Re: The End of OS X
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whether or not Apple "forces" users to update, on current iOS they will prompt users to update on a daily basis and there is no way to turn off those notifications. There is also no way to prevent the automatic downloading of updates unless you block them at a firewall level or have limited free storage space on your device.
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/stop-iphone-nagging...
I took the time to read this article and also check my phone settings. I do have automatic updates disabled but have been getting daily update notifications.
From the article:
"Turning off Automatic Updates and deleting the latest update from your Storage will prevent you from getting the alert windows in the future, although some users have reported that iOS re-downloads the update when the iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi.
If the 'Install Now/Remind Later' alert re-appears, check in your Storage & iCloud Usage and delete the update again.
You'll still get alerts from the App Store when Apple releases a new version. But these only come along every few months; not daily."