Apple's operating systems mistreat or harm the user

Re:Apple's operating systems mistreat or harm the user by elagost on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:32AM (#20748077)

The second sentence is "This does not include accidental errors" but then an accidental error and a bunch of third-party program are cited as primary examples. Things are cited multiple times - the recent "battery DRM" news, App Store censorship, and remote wiping. How is it Apple's fault if someone writes and distributes malware for their system outside the App Store?

I agree with the premise, but this article is a little bit of a mess. Things like this don't help convince people. Were it shorter and more cleaned up, and devoid of things like "cr...app store" it might actually help people realize the importance of Free Software.

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Re:Apple's operating systems mistreat or harm the user by kgwxd on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:37PM (#20748924)

I'm pretty much 100% on board with GNU, FSF, etc, but I absolutely despise the "crapp store" stuff. Once in a while, fine, but almost every talk, article and software title has some kind of jab like that. "GNU" itself is an example. It's very childish and I think it's RMSs fault for setting the precedence from the beginning and doing it so much since. I wish he'd stop doing it and start actively discouraging it.

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Re:Apple's operating systems mistreat or harm the user by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:48AM (#20748292)

This is after all, the same people who still insist on "GNU/Linux".

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