Re:Making macOS Apps Uninstallable
by AbusiveHNAdmin on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:36PM
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No. That's the big lie pushed by Apple apologists for 20 years: "You just drag apps to the trash, and YIPPEE! They're all gone!"
These are the same apologists that mocked Windows for needing device drivers, as if the Mac didn't. Since Windows 95, when you plug a new printer into a Windows machine, it detects it and offers to look for a driver. What did OS X do for, oh, half its existence? NOTHING. You'd plug a peripheral in and nothing would happen. It was up to you to scrounge around for a driver disk and explore it for an installer. THAT one, at least, Apple has remedied.
But to go 20+ years since the OS X transition without an uninstaller is absurd. Then again, Apple is the company that forced you to manage all the content on your handheld Unix computer with a POS jukebox application... which it didn't even write.
These are the same apologists that mocked Windows for needing device drivers, as if the Mac didn't. Since Windows 95, when you plug a new printer into a Windows machine, it detects it and offers to look for a driver. What did OS X do for, oh, half its existence? NOTHING. You'd plug a peripheral in and nothing would happen. It was up to you to scrounge around for a driver disk and explore it for an installer. THAT one, at least, Apple has remedied.
But to go 20+ years since the OS X transition without an uninstaller is absurd. Then again, Apple is the company that forced you to manage all the content on your handheld Unix computer with a POS jukebox application... which it didn't even write.