Actually, by default it restricts installation to the App Store and "Identified Developers" (e.g. established 3rd-party developers like Adobe). IIRC, you can also type in the admin account user/pass in the prompt to bypass it. Only the really out-there stuff requires going into System Preferences and explicitly allowing it.
That one TV-advertised product PC-Matic mimics this behavior in Windows if memory serves, which makes me think that Microsoft just wants to bump that company off, perhaps?
This feature is on by default on the Mac. It's one of the first things I turn off when I set up my account on a new Mac, but it is great for everyone else in my life. My folks & in-laws have Macs, so I'm their defacto support guy. I administer their computers, and they can't install any software except from the Mac App Store. My mom wanted to install a solitaire game from some dubious website, and this prevented it from being installed. I found her a legit solitaire game on the App store for free. As a CIS teacher & hobbyist programmer though, it can be a pain in the neck, since a lot of open source software, such as GIMP aren't already available.
That's no guarantee that Microsoft will be as wise as Apple has been. Instead of code signing, Microsoft is encouraging developers to wrap Win32 apps in UWP containers so they can be published from the Windows Store, so probably not as wise.
Mac: I download something and install it, and then have ZERO IDEA how to uninstall it. Deleting the icon out of "Application" is easy. But what about configuration files? Even homebrew doesn't solve that -- http://superuser.com/questions...
Win32 apps in UWP containers: this "project centennial" approach virtualizes filesystem and registry for the app, so uninstallation will end up removing absolutely everything. I prefer this approach. (speaking as someone with OSX and who knows what leftovers on it...)
If you're really worried about that 4 KB prefs file on your 4 TB drive, then they are as easy to delete as the Application Bundle itself:
Apple's been boiling its frogs (sorry, I mean, customers) longer, and has moved from the ability to install any app you want, to the ability to install any app you want IF you set up preferences to allow it, to an inability to set up preferences to allow it, but if you try, a button appears (which you have to go into preferences to find) that may allow it (doesn't alway appear)...
They're one or two steps away from "app store only."
The frogs.... sorry, the customers... just one step from boiling now.
Interesting to see Microsoft begin to turn up the heat.
I guess pretty much everyone's a frog now.
Customer. I meant customer.
STFU, Liar.
Right-Click. Run Anything. Been the same since GateKeeper began back in the OS X Lion Days, IIRC.
Well, I must admit I mulled that over when I was writing that line, but just decided that they might actually be considered employees for purposes of taxing, etc.
Shows that 1000kcal is appropriate for a sedentary 3 year old, 2400kcal for an average 18 year male and 2000kcal for average 18 year female. That is for moderately active people, sedentary people need less and those with high activity need more.
No wonder I wax hungry all the time on the 1,200 calorie diets they put me on as a teenager!
What's in there for us, mere mortals? The guy got lucky and earned 6800% on his investment, great. Now where are the stories of people losing money by investing in a bad stock?
Also, where would most people get $400K to invest in stock options when they have no spare money at all or even owe lots of money until they hit their late 50s?
Or is it a story about a super successful company which is known to have a cult status, which allows it to sell the same product year after year with minimal changes, yet earn billions? I don't understand.
WTF are you mewling about, Hater?
We were here having a nice, adult conversation, and you have to cone here and act like an impetuous asshole,
What Apple gets is simple. Stability, sanity and some level of honesty in the face of huge temptation and fear.
You only have to look at Nokia to see what can happen if the wrong people get onto the board of a company. Somehow or other, the Nokia board managed to convince its self that a company which had managed to survive multiple revolutions in mobile communications was best led by a man who had failed repeatedly to build mobile success at Microsoft. The results are well known (image from this article).
Why the did this I have no idea. Panic? Bribes? Stupidity? There has been no clear criminal investigation when there should have been but it seems they were just taken in by fear and a smooth talking failure in Elop. Still, the point is that now Apple may be in a similar situation. They have various long term technologies which won't pay off immediately. Nokia was doing Meego, it's own independent touch screen OS; Apple is doing it's own smart phone chips. They will now be under pressure from Chinese rivals and will go both down as well as up. If you keep working on these technologies you will survive and profit but you are very likely to suffer some relative decline even so. If your board panics and changes everything to try to force growth in a market where there is no more space, you may lose everything that you already have.
No idea if Gore is the right guy, however I know how much could be lost if he's the wrong one. Apple's profits, around $40Billion yearly, are more than ten times Nokia's. Imagine those disappeared in two years because Apple became involved in someone like Microsoft and brought in someone like Elop.
That's good work if you can get it. A couple of hours per quarter, and the company usually flies you in and puts you up in swanky digs and takes you out for expensive dinners.
And for the effort he managed to pull in some $60+ million in bonus incentives. Nice.
Although, given his history as a politician who complained of many things of "the rich", including CEOs making exorbitant salaries and bonuses..... Doesn't that make this..... I dunno, ironic seems inadequate.
Still, if you are looking for someone to sit on your board, I'll be happy to do it at half that rate!
Exactly. Which of us reading these words would pass on the opportunity?
regardless of whether or not this was the optimal time to sell, you can't buy groceries with stocks. Gotta cash out at some point. He's just decided he's ready to quit growing his money and start spending it.
Exactly. Or maybe he has a personal project in mind he'd like to throw some money at.
If he's smart, since Apple's revenues have been losing momentum. The last quarter's numbers were pretty disappointing, after adjusting for the extra week.
Apple: Proudly going out of business for nearly a half century!
Unless a messaging systems comes with open federation standard and p2p encryption, it is dead in the water to me. We could have had that with XMPP but Google got their panties in a twist when some of the other federations were only doing one way federation.
Don't know what "open federation standard" is; but Apple's "Messages" App does use the Open Source "Jabber" protocol, is based on XMPP, supports Sever-Federation (is that the same thing?), and has p2p encryption.
Help me understand the legal standing of Cellbrite.
If I buy an iPhone 6 and circumvent the built-in encryption, am I not in violation of the DCMA? Yet when Cellbrite does it, and sells that service as a product it's not a DMCA violation but instead a legal offering to law enforcement (or anyone willing to pay the crazy fee)?
How's that "most expensive phone on the market" thing working out for you?
Wouldn't know; because a Samsung GN7 (when it was available) was MORE EXPENSIVE than an iPhone 7 PLUS, which is more expensive than the iPhone 6 and 6s models affected by this shutdown issue.
So, STFU, Hater. Do so research before venting your spleen.
"fixes":Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Well, that's not a "fix".
That's a quick patch to reduce the instances.
And suggestive that they have no idea what the issue really is.
Or that there is something out of their control that is causing some batteries to have more problems than others.
It's not a huge problem, unless the fucker shuts down at 55% power while you're navigating through a new city. Fuck Apple and this blatant attempt to force people to buy new phones.
Really, you can't fix a fucking batter you broke via software? I don't believe that. Hell, the Chinese knockoffs are better than that with their hamfisted engineering.
STFU, Hater.
Show me PROOF that Apple CAUSED this ON PURPOSE, or GTFO.
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Actually, by default it restricts installation to the App Store and "Identified Developers" (e.g. established 3rd-party developers like Adobe). IIRC, you can also type in the admin account user/pass in the prompt to bypass it. Only the really out-there stuff requires going into System Preferences and explicitly allowing it.
That one TV-advertised product PC-Matic mimics this behavior in Windows if memory serves, which makes me think that Microsoft just wants to bump that company off, perhaps?
http://www.macworld.com/articl...
Right - Click. Choose "Open"
Dismiss Warning.
App Opens, and you are never bothered again about that App.
Now, was that so hard?!?
This feature is on by default on the Mac. It's one of the first things I turn off when I set up my account on a new Mac, but it is great for everyone else in my life. My folks & in-laws have Macs, so I'm their defacto support guy. I administer their computers, and they can't install any software except from the Mac App Store. My mom wanted to install a solitaire game from some dubious website, and this prevented it from being installed. I found her a legit solitaire game on the App store for free. As a CIS teacher & hobbyist programmer though, it can be a pain in the neck, since a lot of open source software, such as GIMP aren't already available.
What, a Right-Click too hard for ya?
Jeezus!
That's no guarantee that Microsoft will be as wise as Apple has been. Instead of code signing, Microsoft is encouraging developers to wrap Win32 apps in UWP containers so they can be published from the Windows Store, so probably not as wise.
Mac: I download something and install it, and then have ZERO IDEA how to uninstall it. Deleting the icon out of "Application" is easy. But what about configuration files? Even homebrew doesn't solve that -- http://superuser.com/questions...
Win32 apps in UWP containers: this "project centennial" approach virtualizes filesystem and registry for the app, so uninstallation will end up removing absolutely everything. I prefer this approach. (speaking as someone with OSX and who knows what leftovers on it...)
If you're really worried about that 4 KB prefs file on your 4 TB drive, then they are as easy to delete as the Application Bundle itself:
.000025 ns to Google, Hater.
http://echoone.com/tips/how-to...
Oh, and that took exactly
The potential is there. We are a breath away from it being a reality. Dont be so cavalier about it.
The potential is there to have a giant asteroid wipe out planet earth in the next 10 minutes, too.
WTF is your point?
Apple's been boiling its frogs (sorry, I mean, customers) longer, and has moved from the ability to install any app you want, to the ability to install any app you want IF you set up preferences to allow it, to an inability to set up preferences to allow it, but if you try, a button appears (which you have to go into preferences to find) that may allow it (doesn't alway appear)...
They're one or two steps away from "app store only."
The frogs.... sorry, the customers... just one step from boiling now.
Interesting to see Microsoft begin to turn up the heat.
I guess pretty much everyone's a frog now.
Customer. I meant customer.
STFU, Liar.
Right-Click. Run Anything. Been the same since GateKeeper began back in the OS X Lion Days, IIRC.
Al Gore has beyond any possible doubt not provided any technical, organizational, business, or marketing expertise of any value to Apple.
And you know that how, exactly?
I'm not AlGore fan; but as far as he is out from politics these days, there must be another reason he's still on the board.
It's "remuneration", not "renumeration".
I know. Dyslexia sucks.
Board Members are not employees.
Well, I must admit I mulled that over when I was writing that line, but just decided that they might actually be considered employees for purposes of taxing, etc.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
Appropriate energy intake for critically ill mechanically respirated patients ~1900kcal/day. That is adjusted for the body weights etc.
https://health.gov/dietaryguid...
Shows that 1000kcal is appropriate for a sedentary 3 year old, 2400kcal for an average 18 year male and 2000kcal for average 18 year female. That is for moderately active people, sedentary people need less and those with high activity need more.
No wonder I wax hungry all the time on the 1,200 calorie diets they put me on as a teenager!
What's in there for us, mere mortals? The guy got lucky and earned 6800% on his investment, great. Now where are the stories of people losing money by investing in a bad stock?
Also, where would most people get $400K to invest in stock options when they have no spare money at all or even owe lots of money until they hit their late 50s?
Or is it a story about a super successful company which is known to have a cult status, which allows it to sell the same product year after year with minimal changes, yet earn billions? I don't understand.
WTF are you mewling about, Hater?
We were here having a nice, adult conversation, and you have to cone here and act like an impetuous asshole,
Go away.
What Apple gets is simple. Stability, sanity and some level of honesty in the face of huge temptation and fear.
You only have to look at Nokia to see what can happen if the wrong people get onto the board of a company. Somehow or other, the Nokia board managed to convince its self that a company which had managed to survive multiple revolutions in mobile communications was best led by a man who had failed repeatedly to build mobile success at Microsoft. The results are well known (image from this article).
Why the did this I have no idea. Panic? Bribes? Stupidity? There has been no clear criminal investigation when there should have been but it seems they were just taken in by fear and a smooth talking failure in Elop. Still, the point is that now Apple may be in a similar situation. They have various long term technologies which won't pay off immediately. Nokia was doing Meego, it's own independent touch screen OS; Apple is doing it's own smart phone chips. They will now be under pressure from Chinese rivals and will go both down as well as up. If you keep working on these technologies you will survive and profit but you are very likely to suffer some relative decline even so. If your board panics and changes everything to try to force growth in a market where there is no more space, you may lose everything that you already have.
No idea if Gore is the right guy, however I know how much could be lost if he's the wrong one. Apple's profits, around $40Billion yearly, are more than ten times Nokia's. Imagine those disappeared in two years because Apple became involved in someone like Microsoft and brought in someone like Elop.
Extremely well stated!
Director stock options are another unjust method of the one percent to take from everyone else while adding no value.
I would like to ask what is "unjust" about a private corporation's private compensation plans for its private employees?
That's good work if you can get it. A couple of hours per quarter, and the company usually flies you in and puts you up in swanky digs and takes you out for expensive dinners.
And for the effort he managed to pull in some $60+ million in bonus incentives. Nice.
Although, given his history as a politician who complained of many things of "the rich", including CEOs making exorbitant salaries and bonuses..... Doesn't that make this..... I dunno, ironic seems inadequate.
Still, if you are looking for someone to sit on your board, I'll be happy to do it at half that rate!
Exactly. Which of us reading these words would pass on the opportunity?
regardless of whether or not this was the optimal time to sell, you can't buy groceries with stocks. Gotta cash out at some point. He's just decided he's ready to quit growing his money and start spending it.
Exactly. Or maybe he has a personal project in mind he'd like to throw some money at.
If he's smart, since Apple's revenues have been losing momentum. The last quarter's numbers were pretty disappointing, after adjusting for the extra week.
Apple: Proudly going out of business for nearly a half century!
Unless a messaging systems comes with open federation standard and p2p encryption, it is dead in the water to me. We could have had that with XMPP but Google got their panties in a twist when some of the other federations were only doing one way federation.
Don't know what "open federation standard" is; but Apple's "Messages" App does use the Open Source "Jabber" protocol, is based on XMPP, supports Sever-Federation (is that the same thing?), and has p2p encryption.
So is it dead in the water to you?
I wonder if this is in response to the updates to "Messages" in iOS 10...
Security getting in the way of functionality. Let me access the phone storage like any Android device.
And we have all seen how well that is working out for Android...
Might be. There are many academic papers discussing TrustZone bypass with physical access.
Apple has their own "TrustZone" enhancements.
Help me understand the legal standing of Cellbrite.
If I buy an iPhone 6 and circumvent the built-in encryption, am I not in violation of the DCMA? Yet when Cellbrite does it, and sells that service as a product it's not a DMCA violation but instead a legal offering to law enforcement (or anyone willing to pay the crazy fee)?
Am I missing something here?
Good point!
How do you know Cellebrite isn't an Apple funded offshoot to funnel govt money in exchange for backdoors.
How do we know you're not Vladimir Putin, or worse yet, Steve Bannon?
Seriously?
Buy a better phone.
You know, one that has a working mic.
How's that "most expensive phone on the market" thing working out for you?
Wouldn't know; because a Samsung GN7 (when it was available) was MORE EXPENSIVE than an iPhone 7 PLUS, which is more expensive than the iPhone 6 and 6s models affected by this shutdown issue.
So, STFU, Hater. Do so research before venting your spleen.
"fixes" :Apple now has statistics to share on how it has improved the issue, citing 80 percent reduction on iPhone 6s and 70 percent reduction on iPhone 6 devices.
Well, that's not a "fix".
That's a quick patch to reduce the instances.
And suggestive that they have no idea what the issue really is.
Or that there is something out of their control that is causing some batteries to have more problems than others.
It's not a huge problem, unless the fucker shuts down at 55% power while you're navigating through a new city. Fuck Apple and this blatant attempt to force people to buy new phones.
Really, you can't fix a fucking batter you broke via software? I don't believe that. Hell, the Chinese knockoffs are better than that with their hamfisted engineering.
STFU, Hater.
Show me PROOF that Apple CAUSED this ON PURPOSE, or GTFO.
Seriously.
Fucking ACs...
If you do have a battery issue with 6s you can get it replaced for free at an apple store.
Any idea why Apple wants you to do this before they replace the battery?
Um, maybe so they don't have to worry about people in the refurb-chain stealing your data?