Comment by oarsinsync
2 years ago
I long ago concluded that the overlap with Apple products and power tech user desires was a happy coincidence, and/or a hangover of their past, rather than an indication of their future.
The Mac is the exception in their current product lineup: every other platform is heavily locked down, and the user’s behaviour heavily restricted.
I strongly believe the Mac is heading in the same direction. See the progression from run what you want, to optional signing of binaries, to right click to run unsigned things, to disable a setting to be able to run unsigned binaries; or “worse”, the way spctl and csrutil no longer function after deploying Sequoia.
I mean I hate Windows more and that's the choice unfortunately. I'd love a Linux arm book though.
I do think part of the problem is not enough engineers asking their bosses why. Or not enough engineers thinking decisions through. I hope to god it's not a lack of engineers that are power users because that's even worse in many ways, but I wouldn't be surprised.