Apple might completely take over end users' computers

Re:Apple might completely take over end users' computers by nmlnn on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:37PM (#25233974)

It seems like it's going that way though.

I used a MBP as a phd student and postdoc for scientific computing and at the time ~2010-2015 it was fantastic for that, all my peers thought so as well. At conferences/seminars, there would just be a sea of macbooks with a few linux machines scattered around.

That is definitely starting to change - not by choice, more like people are being squeezed out due to the increasingly restrictive nature of the OS.

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Re:Apple might completely take over end users' computers by bluejekyll on Friday November 27, 2020 @07:51PM (#25234072)

I do a lot of development on the Mac, and while I share this concern, I haven't been blocked in any way that I would say I'm feeling squeezed out, CLI's still work, all the code I compile still works...

I haven't run into an issue with the "App Store and identified developers" yet, tough I assume I will at some point. But I actually don't mind that as a means of helping prevent some malicious software from running on my machine.

That's not to say I'm not worried Apple will lock it down more, but I think that would really kill the platform, right now it feels like an ok balance.

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