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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by _ph_ on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:07PM (#24675656)
Gatekeeper has been around for 10 years and every year people have predicted you couldn't install software outside of the app store. It never came by. As a development machine, it just wouldn't work.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by userbinator on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:56PM (#24676423)
The frog needs to be boiled slowly. Very slowly.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by _ph_ on Sunday October 04, 2020 @03:18AM (#24677081)
No. For a general purpose machine, especially for developers, you need the ability to access your files freely and to run any program. If that is no longer given, all developers and most users would drop the platform. Also, it completely doesn't make sense as long as you allow virtualisation. Which Apple not only does, they even demoed this capabiltiy in the keynote.
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