[Discuss] os x = poop?

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On 2/12/2015 1:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> I can bitch and gripe all I want about Apple's policies and how their 
> products are designed to benefit *them* with consumer lock-in, etc etc 
> blah blah. Nobody's listening. 

Don't be so hard on yourself: there are people listening, but those whom 
are not probably already realized that Apple is in the business of 
selling more Apple products, not making the FOSS movement stronger.

It's obvious to anyone who sees Apple's hardware that the company wants 
to prevent any cut-rate competitors' from undercutting their prices: 
proprietary connectors everywhere you look, even if the protocols are as 
common as SCSI (Thunderbolt) or VGA, and ever-more imaginative ways to 
put components inside boxes with new shapes that nobody else can 
produce. I once won $10 by proving to my coworker that an Apple computer 
had an IDE drive in it; and I made the bet because I knew that not even 
Apple could afford to pass up the benefits of commodity disk drives, no 
matter how much effort their designers put into hiding the drive in a 
special bracket secured with Torx screws to frighten the average user.

They make money at it, and so they're not likely to change, which is a 
shame, because they're going to get stuck in the "what next" part of the 
curve. Having invented so many new ways of doing things, Apple will 
become the victim of its success: there are only so many ways to 
re-imagine the music industry or computers in general, and Jobs isn't 
around to pull more rabbits out of his hat.

FWIW.

Bill
P.S. I'll move my reply to your VM advice into the VM thread.