Now, they maintain UNIX certification to comply with contract requirements. I think if they could get away with it, they'd stop shipping Terminal.app as soon as they were able.
I don’t think believe that’s true. Apple has always treated the Mac differently than its other devices, even back in the iPod days and before. One can still see that today in how for instance they made M-series Macs capable of booting third party operating systems when it would’ve been much easier to not do that, with the architectural base of these machines being iPads. macOS has had some bolts tightened in the past decade, but all of that has legitimate value in security and stability and much of it is being mirrored by other desktop operating systems (e.g. immutable system, moving things out of the kernel to userspace, etc).
Good for them heck yes.
sometimes picking a hill to die on is more about dying than hills.
You're welcome to explain your theory more but I don't think the thumbtacks are lining up on your proverbial corkboard.
> sometimes picking a hill to die on is more about dying than hills.
Microsoft quit being so picky once the DC District Court ordered a company breakup as an antitrust remedy. It's shocking how fast companies can transition from arguing over dying-hills to begging for their life.
But this is so far away from the defining relevant concerns of software architecture. It's such a simple winge, doing only extremely primitive software analysis. And it doesn't hold for 99.99% of my web experience. My daily driver is a 2016 low power mobile core & most of my web world fairly flies. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/95443/i...
Anyone running the latest and greatest hardware will likely never notice. But 99% of the world doesn't run the latest and greatest. I think there's some irony in all this.
Apps are more free to manipulate and advertise to you on the web than they are as native apps.
Values-based positions are all too rare.
The continued hope is that they create some momentum somewhere else. The web ought be more than a parallel, it ought be provibg itself better. Proof will be in the pudding.
Extensions definitely are a "can't get that any other way" example. And I struggle to imagine not being equipped with form auto-saver features, history enhancers, customizable dark mode, and other benefits. But it still feels like just a start.
> The web protects me and because it's text out in the open I can live my personal morality directly. I don't have to ask permission — I can enforce.
Multi-planar combat against that which dogs us; Infernal Machines of closed natures which leave is stranded, high and dry, where we don't have control. We see these threads again and again. Local-capable iot. Apps & services closing down on us.
Recent examples,
Home Assistant: Three years later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345122 https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/home-automation-th...
No one cares about open-source, until https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396130 https://blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/no-one-cares-intil/
Manipulation is just the act of purposefully invoking an emotion. I think it's important to realize that manipulation is everywhere, all of the time.
The author remarked that he made a social media app for his kid to "understand." Getting his kid to use the app? That's manipulation!
The kid telling him "no" when he actually means "yes" or "not sure, but what happens if I say no"? That's also manipulation!
Traveling to the grocery store and looking at literally any product on a shelf? Manipulation masterclass.[0]
Reading _literally any_ article on the New York Times? This literal comment? You already know.
Thus, I think that rejecting advertising on the grounds of manipulation by "wealthy people" is misguided [1]. I personally go out of my way to block ads and trackers because I think they are extremely creepy, can suck bandwidth and slow page load times (if implemented poorly; many are) and can be vectors for malware.
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2741065/
[1] You don't have to be rich to run an ad campaign. In fact, many companies that are on their last legs are some of the ones that spend the most!
