Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
by saagarjha on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:51PM
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Some of the things Apple makes are certainly "security features" and not security features, but to your main point: Apple designed their security model to be "trust us or trust nobody" and the security model most users want is "I trust me". It is eminently possible to do that without going back to the wild west of not having any security, actually, the issue is that Apple forces you to go there if you aren't happy with anything they add on macOS.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
by rbrtl on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:51PM
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Most power users maybe. Most consumer users don’t think about the fact they have to trust at all. And you can’t say you don’t want the security features and then say that it’s bad you have to turn them off if you don’t want them. The goalposts are Apple’s customers, my guesstimate is that 80% of those paying customers would rather be secured by the vendor they already trusted to produce the hardware, firmware, software, and infrastructure they use on a daily basis. Do you know of any market research about the level of security most users want?
Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
by chongli on Sunday November 29, 2020 @12:24AM
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No, most users would rather trust Apple. These are the people who drop their computer off at the Genius Bar for software problems. They never even think about rolling up their sleeves to fix a problem, never mind firing up the terminal.