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No More Mac Tweaking?
netphilter writes "Apple is trying to "close the operating system to tweakers" according to this story on Wired. The addition of the BSD kernel and the command line left me thinking that they were trying to open the OS a bit more to tweakers, not close it. I'm not a Mac user, but I have been thinking about trying out OS X. However, if Apple is trying to CLOSE the OS (contrary to the impression that I had) then I'm not going to waste my time."
Jamie adds: life may be harder for them, I guess, but many developers are
still tweaking Mac OS X.
who cares about apple. first i didn't get jaguar for free, then they took away my iTools. you know, i used to hate apple. I would never have got a mac. But, then they switched over to OS X, starting using some Unix in their software. but now, they're back to their old tricks. charging for a 0.1 update, taking away the email address i thought i'd be using for a long time. apple stock is falling rapidly, and i (once again) have ceased to care about the company. anyone agree? ps. someone send me a free jaguar update
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Sure, technically you are correct. The UI is not the OS.
However, as the saying goes; "Perception is reality." The fact is that for most users and certainly for Apple's tageted users, the UI *IS* the OS. They have no concept of the distinction and their ignorance is furthered by articles like this in the media.
In fairness to these users, they are bombarded with mis-information for so long that the mis-information becomes reality.
I'll bet you call them "cable modems" or "xDSL modems", dispite the fact that they aren't modems at all. But they have been incorrectly categorized for so long that even the manufacturers now go with the flow and label their products as "modems".
Why is it reasonable for a company to restrict the way we use the product? This isn't Apple designing a product to be consistent, this is Apple locking down an existing product that people are using is a way that they didn't anticipate, because the creativity these users are demonstrating angers them.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks.
You don't even know what you're talking about.
The API are in
They have header files so you can link against them.
They are there for everyone to use.
How is saying "Please don't count on these private frameworks not changing from release to release, thank you." "Locking down an existing product"???
I think you simply don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about. The many of the previously private frameworks have become public, and many of the private frameworks there now are new-- not existing.
When you say apple is locking down an existing product because they are angered at people using it in a way they didn't anticipate: YOU ARE LYING.
That is a bald faced lie. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
Repeat after me:
Apple is a Monopoly. It is a very closed system of both hardware and software despite the "Come in We're Open" sign on the Darwin page.
Apple will do anything to protect that monopoly. Even convince their entire user base that they are somehow rebels, artists, free thinkers etc.
Apple does all of this through a *very* expensive marketing campaign that basically equates the the truth with a roll of toilet paper.
Apple is over priced, arrogant, and completely full of shit: READ: "Oh well, another day, another revolution" (ad copy when announcing some new 500mhz 'super computer')
Folks: 1.2mhz != 2.8ghz *EVER*
It doesnt "Just Work". I use a G4 at my job and I could list a thing as long as the first page of slashdot that don't work.
This all said. OS X is pretty cool. Its nice to have a Unix based system that does all the cool stuff OS X does. And! It runs photoshop!!
Apple hardware is very slick looking.
And every person who "switches" is one less person using the WinTel system of government survaliance. That is, if those same switchers stop using all the Microsoft crap that runs on the OS.
It always kills me how many people who use Apple cos they hate MS, then turn around and browse using IE for the Mac, as if somehow, someway because it is running on the Machine that the Dalai Lama appeared in an ad for, makes it OK and not satans very browser.
I wish I could post and mod the same thread. Yours seems to be the most enlightened post on this subject that I've ever read.
Linux zealots need to understand that commerce is not evil, that proprietary IP is not wrong, and they are not going to change the world. Once they accept these facts, they can make judgments about technology based on technology rather than on whacked-out hippie politics.
Apple's credo, "The computer for the rest of them" rides on the very notion that you should not scare lusers by giving them the slightest hint on how the darn thing works.
So it's only normal that they close tight shut their machines, and this includes the OS.