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iMessage is a huge lock-in for non-technical users. They are just obsessed with it on iOS. You can find tons of forum posts with people throwing fits that XYZ Android phone doesn't have iMessage.
This might me valid for the US. Anecdotally, where I live (Switzerland/central Europe) almost nobody uses iMessage, and WhatsApp is the big dominator.
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I see a lot of comments here wondering why Apple seems to not care about software quality anymore. I don’t know if that’s true, but there’s a perfectly obvious answer: They don’t have to. Software quality in macOS was important back when they were trying to get people to switch from Windows-based PCs to Macs. Nowadays, most people who were going to switch have already switched, so Apple has no incentive to keep up th…
I wouldn't be so sure about that. There are a lot of "about to switch" people out there, in both directions, who are just waiting for either the extra nudge or the extra reason to not switch.
I see a lot of comments here wondering why Apple seems to not care about software quality anymore. I don’t know if that’s true, but there’s a perfectly obvious answer: They don’t have to. Software quality in macOS was important back when they were trying to get people to switch from Windows-based PCs to Macs. Nowadays, most people who were going to switch have already switched, so Apple has no incentive to keep up th…
Maybe. But this particular bug happened precisely because Apple has changed _something_ in macOS. Also this something was probably quite profound since it has impacted a part of software that, at least from the outside, haven't changed much since a long time. A lot of macOS users would actually prefer Apple to do less with it than what they are currently doing.
I don't know much about this bug but I have seen several reports that the bug has actually existed quite some time and is not new, only the publicity surrounding it is now shining a bright light on it.
I see a lot of comments here wondering why Apple seems to not care about software quality anymore. I don’t know if that’s true, but there’s a perfectly obvious answer: They don’t have to. Software quality in macOS was important back when they were trying to get people to switch from Windows-based PCs to Macs. Nowadays, most people who were going to switch have already switched, so Apple has no incentive to keep up th…
These days, where is the lock-in? The core applications that I use (Firefox, Docker, VSCode, vim, ...) all work just as well on Linux, MacOS and Windows. I have a Mac, because it's (at least previously) been pretty secure by default, doesn't require me to invest a lot of time sysadmining my own box, and lets me dip into a healthy ecosystem of commercial software useful to my hobbies (like photography.) The software h…
I see a lot of comments here wondering why Apple seems to not care about software quality anymore. I don’t know if that’s true, but there’s a perfectly obvious answer: They don’t have to. Software quality in macOS was important back when they were trying to get people to switch from Windows-based PCs to Macs. Nowadays, most people who were going to switch have already switched, so Apple has no incentive to keep up th…
I've heard of a lot of people switching away from Macs to Linux and Windows, especially with Windows building up their own official Linux subsystem now.
PC hardware is cheaper than Apple's, and hardware (even the "good stuff") becomes obsolete after 5 years anyway. Besides, most software is cross platform these days.
The only real good retention plan Apple has is that we can't release iOS apps without owning Apple hardware; there's a few Mac-specific software titles that certain professionals rely on; and a little bit of "it's overall higher quality than PCs" mindshare that some people still have either from the 80s and early 2000s, but that can't last long if Apple keeps this up.
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Maybe. But this particular bug happened precisely because Apple has changed _something_ in macOS. Also this something was probably quite profound since it has impacted a part of software that, at least from the outside, haven't changed much since a long time. A lot of macOS users would actually prefer Apple to do less with it than what they are currently doing.
> this particular bug happened precisely because Apple has changed _something_ in macOS I don't know much about this bug but I have seen several reports that the bug has actually existed quite some time and is not new, only the publicity surrounding it is now shining a bright light on it.
I've been a developer for a long time. I understand bugs happen, even bugs with terrible consequences. A lot of bugs seem understandable, like I can see the chain of ifs/thens required to end up at some hilarious broken state. But I'm breaking my brain trying to figure out how in the hell a login attempt for "root" will enable it if it's disabled. Why is this is a possibility, to just enable root, no questions asked?
This seems to be why: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x24.html
IMHO these are two separate bugs: promoting disabled accounts and using the password the user typed in instead of the value in the password list.
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This goes against basically every corporate strategy ever, which is to always increase growth. At this state in the company's life there is a disconnect between those who make the software and those who make the business decisions. I don't think it's likely that Apple's board just decided to give up attracting new customers, and any apparent decline in quality is likely attributed to bad management; ineptitude, rathe…
Old school corps - DEC, HP, even IBM to an extent - weren't about increasing growth irrespective of consequences. The DEC Employee Handbook made a big deal out of Doing the Right Thing. Obviously that was subjective, frequently debatable, and sometimes just a pain in the ass - but it was a guiding principle for engineers of that generation, and for engineers who became managers. And it produced some outstanding engin…
