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0 pointsrootusrootus2y ago0 comments

> Battery throtteling on the iPhone 6s

This is one of the ways I can tell what preconceived opinion someone has. The only problem with the battery throttling was PR. The engineering solution was correct and objectively better than not throttling. Should they have told users their battery was failing? Sure. But keeping the phone from crashing was better than letting it.

> unauthorized Apps on MacOS must be opened with a right-click

I've never had to do that.

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FireBeyond2y ago

> I've never had to do that.

Using OKD (OpenShift Kubernetes Distribution) because I just dealt with this morning:

https://github.com/okd-project/okd/releases - download the MacOS installer and unzip it.

Then try to run it from the command line. Be told that it "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". This is NOT the "is an app downloaded from the Internet, do you wish to run it?" dialog.

Go to Finder, and double click it. Get the same message.

You have to go to Finder, then right click the app, specifically hit Open (which will open a terminal that will immediately exit), and only now can you run this app in your original terminal.

rootusrootusOP2y ago

Interesting, thanks for the link. I've never run into that before. I've downloaded a lot of software, much of it open source. I've only downloaded from the Mac App Store maybe twice ever. But this is the first time I've gotten completely denied. Is it because it was a zip file with an executable inside, rather than an installer? Or as someone else mentioned, because it isn't signed at all? Are all the open source projects paying for signing certs for their OSX installer packages?

Again, thanks for the link. That's probably the only time I'll run into that, it clearly isn't my usual use case, but I'm glad you could back up the assertion with something I could see for myself.

I do agree that it should be clearer how you can run the executable if you really do trust it.

sgjohnson2y ago

> Then try to run it from the command line. Be told that it "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". This is NOT the "is an app downloaded from the Internet, do you wish to run it?" dialog.

Yes, you get the “developer cannot be verified” error if the code isn’t signed. Which is perfectly fine, I don’t see how this is anti-consumer.

It’s $99 for a code signing cert (per developer account) on macOS/iOS, which I believe is less than what they cost on Windows.

gramie2y ago

Yes, but the dialog doesn't tell you what to do if you do want to run the code. Why would I think that clicking "Open" in the popup menu would do anything different from double-clicking?

Also, an individual Microsoft Store cert is $19 (one-time, not per year), and a company account is $99.

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