macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password

Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by teddyh on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:01AM (#15805979)

Nobody cares about what developers like in their computers, developers will go wherever the users are. And Apple now has a sizable chunk of computer users and an even larger chunk of smartphone users.

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by m_fayer on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:39AM (#15806086)

There's a big difference between a developer grudgingly keeping a cheap headless mini-computer under a stack of papers somewhere that gets used only as needed, and a developer using your system as their "home base" and buying into your entire ecosystem.

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by teddyh on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:33AM (#15806577)

That’s not a big difference for Apple. They’ve got their user base now, they don’t need developers to spread the word anymore.

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by bipson on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:35AM (#15806067)

This only holds true if you consider lock-in IMO, e.g. you need a mac to develop iOS or mac apps, or you need a windows machine to develop windows apps.

Otherwise I don't care which browser you are using to look at my pages, or which Desktop to run my qt app.

There was a massive influx of developers switchting to mac laptops before it was popular with a majority of users (around 2008).

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