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Re:Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live v... by vbphprubyjsgo on Monday December 20, 2021 @12:59PM (#29627729)
This is yet another instance of the OS reuse problem, e.g., where airports, banks, medical terminals, etc have all kinds of unwanted features because the software is based on booting a GUI OS desktop and using hacks to make it display the program. Not valid engineering of course.
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Re:Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live v... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:01PM (#29627761)
"Not valid engineering of course."???

Yes, it would obviously be much more "valid engineering" to have each of these devices have their own custom, invariably much buggier and crappier, OS.

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