Re:MacOS 10.12.6 Source
by nitrogen on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:55AM
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the number of people who'd actually take advantage of this is extremely low relative to the number of iPhone users
That's only because we live in a world where phones aren't treated like the general use computers they are. MS+OEMs and Apple fought hard for decades to create an appliance mindset around what used to be a user-replaceable component, the OS.
We can just as easily imagine and try to build a world where it's just as easy to mix and match phones with phone OSes as it was to choose DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS.
That's only because we live in a world where phones aren't treated like the general use computers they are. MS+OEMs and Apple fought hard for decades to create an appliance mindset around what used to be a user-replaceable component, the OS.
We can just as easily imagine and try to build a world where it's just as easy to mix and match phones with phone OSes as it was to choose DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS.