The rules regarding selling porn are really complex. Apple isn't setup to go there. Right now generic applications work fine for porn and apple supports those.
My company sells and supports business software and gets bombarded all the time about "a Mac version".
Well just think what happens when a competitor does have a Mac version. Obviously that's when it becomes an incentive when the customer says, "oh I went with X's product instead. I like Pages integration".
Now I know that Apple's OS X license agreement says you can only run OS X on Apple hardware, but I also think that's an illegal restriction
Based on what?
t'll be interesting to see what they do w.r.t. virtualization - will they allow VM images to only be downloaded to and run from Apple OS X Server instances? Do you now have to buy hideously expensive Apple server hardware to be able to benefit from virtualization?
They have discontinued server. Server functionality is being merged into Lion. But yeah most likely if you want to run OSX images you are going to have to do it on Apple servers.
I was a NeXTStep guy and so switched over to OSX as soon as it got stable.
You are absolutely right that objectively the water hasn't boiled yet. Frankly I don't even see what people are so agitated about on iOS, you buy a $99 SDK and now you have an open machine you can do what you want with. The app store is not a huge money maker because the number of applications is increasing and a massive rate. Apple is incurring upfront costs for certifying applications but only get revenue on sales. Once the market levels out a bit with fewer applications selling more copies and the growth coming down... it might be very profitable.
The concern about lockdown is that it happens to the platform. Platform changes are very expensive, particularly because of effective legacy data loss. Sure you can not upgrade and but your next computer is going to have to be a big platform shift. CDs don't have DRM, Amazon doesn't have DRM but Apple's iTunes does. Why? iOS is a very locked down smart phone more than blackberry, more than android more than Meego more than palm.
I could picture that. They have been unhappy for a while with their consumer devices cutting into "pro" sales. Have OSX only on the pro level machines as a workstation OS capable of running iOS applications with all sorts of bonus settings plus pro applications.... while the consumer devices offer simplicity / ease of use very low prices based on huge numbers....
That's a possible world. But I'm not sure that's so bad. If OSX were explicitly a workstation OS it might be a lot lot cooler. It could much more feature rich if it can leave grandma and the 12 year olds out. Sort of like what OSX was like 8 years ago.
We're not quite there yet, but I've been watching the industry a long time - since about a decade before the first home computers from Altair started showing up -
Well then you know we've had less freedom lots of other times. In the 1980s most people used dumb terminals at work. The early 1990s was a high point for freedom. The moves towards high power cell phones handling content are a lot like what happened in the 1990s which was a burst of additional freedom. And lets not even get into web applications.
Mac is like 9-14% of PC sales by units shipped (depending how you count). They are a larger percentage by dollar and a huge percentage, upper 80% by margin. Mac owns the customers who are not highly price sensitive, that is their market segment. Those people are demanding. Creatives are in that group.
That's the same market that likes the iPhone but they want different stuff.
The ability to jailbreak meaningfully at all is something that could disappear. The problem is niche applications are much more common on computers than on phones. And frankly there are a lot of ways to install software on an iPhone other than jailbreak or app store.
Maybe Oracle is much better for DBAs who have to support huge enterprise databases rather than tiny test databases
Well yeah. There is no question SQLServer is much more user friendly and easy. The reason to use Oracle is because you want a database which exceeds what SQLServer can do on standard hardware. And in today's world that's a big system.
As an aside. Oracle is a pain to uninstall on Windows. Its actually pretty easy on Unix, but the install is more complex.
They are quite safe in practice. I've been on a Mac for decade and haven't had to do much about virus or trojans. While on PCs I have workplace problems rather regularly, say once ever 18 mo or so. It just doesn't come up on the Mac. They exist but in the same sense Ebola exists as a theoretical not a practical risk. Because:
a) There are far far fewer of them b) Their cross infection rates are much lower c) Once they hit they do less damage
That triad makes a difference.
But even if it were the case that Macs don't have virus people were entirely wrong that wouldn't prove they were close to as ignorant as Windows users across the board. (b) is primarily true because Mac users do a better job of avoiding nasty malware.
You can look at IBM. You can do it. The OS has to have capabilities for handling legacy applications which are unsafe, sandboxing them and virtualizing their interconnections with other applications.
Of course it should as disabling occurs in real life. Windows NT since the 3.51 days had an excellent capabilities security model that software (including explorer / shell) didn't use. Installers didn't use. There weren't good user commands for it. And so it was effectively disabled and worthless.
I'm not sure that's entirely true at least in a meaningful sense. For example moving from a permissions system to a capabilities system and really using capabilities makes an OS vastly less hackable. Systems where the OS has multiple one way penetrable barriers like VMWare view or MVS tend to be from a practical sense much less hackable. Apple's culture of being able to dictate to their developers, and a developer expectation hat OS bugs can very easily require an upgrade to applications will allow Apple to react much more quickly to security threats.
For all the comments of this sort most analysis show that Mac users are on average substantially more computer knowledgeable than most PC users. Neither population is great by/. standards, but your "Macs are shiny" crows is a myth.
Libertarians proper barely exist anymore as a politically distinct group. There are lots of liberals who are moderate on fiscal issues but they generally vote and have opinions on actual issues like Liberal Democrats even while often not identifying with the party. Paleo-Libertarians are a distinctive group still.
They actually have a lot of apps. But were coming over from SunOS or SCO, they weren't windows apps to begin with. That's the point about never having developed a Windows culture. If there was only a windows version they weren't using the application before the shift.
And my experience is that one of the few workplaces were end users take advantage of network transparency.
Slashdot Mirror
openfirmware includes some limited servers which have network functionality.
There is something to boot to.
iphone/ipad is 1/2
mac, itunes, software, peripherals, ipod is the other other half.
And the real story of OSX Lion is pushing all of OSX server features into Lion.
iOS isn't locked down if you have the developer SDK either. Mainly there is a lot of hysteria.
The rules regarding selling porn are really complex. Apple isn't setup to go there. Right now generic applications work fine for porn and apple supports those.
I know. It is odd how hostile the /. crowd is given all of them are tech savvy enough to use the SDK.
Well just think what happens when a competitor does have a Mac version. Obviously that's when it becomes an incentive when the customer says, "oh I went with X's product instead. I like Pages integration".
Based on what?
They have discontinued server. Server functionality is being merged into Lion. But yeah most likely if you want to run OSX images you are going to have to do it on Apple servers.
That sort of makes sense. If you've done something as major as replace the motherboard you are the OEM not Dell/HP....
But yeah I get your point. Microsoft licensing has always been nuts.
I was a NeXTStep guy and so switched over to OSX as soon as it got stable.
You are absolutely right that objectively the water hasn't boiled yet. Frankly I don't even see what people are so agitated about on iOS, you buy a $99 SDK and now you have an open machine you can do what you want with. The app store is not a huge money maker because the number of applications is increasing and a massive rate. Apple is incurring upfront costs for certifying applications but only get revenue on sales. Once the market levels out a bit with fewer applications selling more copies and the growth coming down... it might be very profitable.
The concern about lockdown is that it happens to the platform. Platform changes are very expensive, particularly because of effective legacy data loss. Sure you can not upgrade and but your next computer is going to have to be a big platform shift. CDs don't have DRM, Amazon doesn't have DRM but Apple's iTunes does. Why? iOS is a very locked down smart phone more than blackberry, more than android more than Meego more than palm.
There is good reason people are concerned.
I could picture that. They have been unhappy for a while with their consumer devices cutting into "pro" sales. Have OSX only on the pro level machines as a workstation OS capable of running iOS applications with all sorts of bonus settings plus pro applications.... while the consumer devices offer simplicity / ease of use very low prices based on huge numbers....
That's a possible world. But I'm not sure that's so bad. If OSX were explicitly a workstation OS it might be a lot lot cooler. It could much more feature rich if it can leave grandma and the 12 year olds out. Sort of like what OSX was like 8 years ago.
Apple is fairly hostile to enterprise customers. As far as mixed usage though I've never really had those sorts of problems.
As far as lousy advice, I get that from most every vendor. That sort of problem isn't apple specific.
Well then you know we've had less freedom lots of other times. In the 1980s most people used dumb terminals at work. The early 1990s was a high point for freedom. The moves towards high power cell phones handling content are a lot like what happened in the 1990s which was a burst of additional freedom. And lets not even get into web applications.
There are forces pulling in both directions.
Once you own the developer SDK (which is only $99 btw) iphone / ipad are not locked down machines for you.
Mac is like 9-14% of PC sales by units shipped (depending how you count). They are a larger percentage by dollar and a huge percentage, upper 80% by margin. Mac owns the customers who are not highly price sensitive, that is their market segment. Those people are demanding. Creatives are in that group.
That's the same market that likes the iPhone but they want different stuff.
Huh? Console login? If that's a big deal to you just change the login scripts.
The ability to jailbreak meaningfully at all is something that could disappear. The problem is niche applications are much more common on computers than on phones. And frankly there are a lot of ways to install software on an iPhone other than jailbreak or app store.
Well yeah. There is no question SQLServer is much more user friendly and easy. The reason to use Oracle is because you want a database which exceeds what SQLServer can do on standard hardware. And in today's world that's a big system.
As an aside. Oracle is a pain to uninstall on Windows. Its actually pretty easy on Unix, but the install is more complex.
They are quite safe in practice. I've been on a Mac for decade and haven't had to do much about virus or trojans. While on PCs I have workplace problems rather regularly, say once ever 18 mo or so. It just doesn't come up on the Mac. They exist but in the same sense Ebola exists as a theoretical not a practical risk. Because:
a) There are far far fewer of them
b) Their cross infection rates are much lower
c) Once they hit they do less damage
That triad makes a difference.
But even if it were the case that Macs don't have virus people were entirely wrong that wouldn't prove they were close to as ignorant as Windows users across the board. (b) is primarily true because Mac users do a better job of avoiding nasty malware.
And how do you trigger that by default on a mac? The default on a mac is download but not to run. If it runs it hits permission issues....
You can look at IBM. You can do it. The OS has to have capabilities for handling legacy applications which are unsafe, sandboxing them and virtualizing their interconnections with other applications.
Of course it should as disabling occurs in real life. Windows NT since the 3.51 days had an excellent capabilities security model that software (including explorer / shell) didn't use. Installers didn't use. There weren't good user commands for it. And so it was effectively disabled and worthless.
I'm not sure that's entirely true at least in a meaningful sense. For example moving from a permissions system to a capabilities system and really using capabilities makes an OS vastly less hackable. Systems where the OS has multiple one way penetrable barriers like VMWare view or MVS tend to be from a practical sense much less hackable. Apple's culture of being able to dictate to their developers, and a developer expectation hat OS bugs can very easily require an upgrade to applications will allow Apple to react much more quickly to security threats.
Its just not true they are all pretty much equal.
For all the comments of this sort most analysis show that Mac users are on average substantially more computer knowledgeable than most PC users. Neither population is great by /. standards, but your "Macs are shiny" crows is a myth.
Libertarians proper barely exist anymore as a politically distinct group. There are lots of liberals who are moderate on fiscal issues but they generally vote and have opinions on actual issues like Liberal Democrats even while often not identifying with the party. Paleo-Libertarians are a distinctive group still.
They actually have a lot of apps. But were coming over from SunOS or SCO, they weren't windows apps to begin with. That's the point about never having developed a Windows culture. If there was only a windows version they weren't using the application before the shift.
And my experience is that one of the few workplaces were end users take advantage of network transparency.