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Macos high sierra er3/1/2024 ![]() ![]() While everything below is just my opinion, as a long-time Mac user and veteran software engineer, I hope my opinion worth something. Since the mission of this blog is to refute myths and legends around Macs, it’s time for me to provide my 2 cents about the issue on hand. Which Mac operating system is the best is a topic of numerous debates among Apple fans. They are, rather, the resource being exploited to provide the energy necessary to undergird the MegaCorp's power expansion, in service to the other MegaCorps doing large-scale advertisement, endorsement, and censorship/speech control deals with them.If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Note that users are not the customer being catered to. If Facebook only had control over code running on, then Facebook would be the apparent source of any user-facing breakage. If Apple's machine learning mechanism notices some common patterns between Facebook's code for React and Facebook's code for user tracking, either organically or because Facebook does a couple of nudges to make sure that happens, now Safari is broken, evidenced by its inability to correctly render a large portion of the web. They want platform control because once you control user attention (and developer attention by extension), you can wedge your way in and do things that benefit your company over others.įacebook controls the front-end library used by a large portion of all sites, not just. Microsoft articulated the goal well in its 1998 memos, the infamous "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Apple can use its influence to harm its competitors by frustrating the mechanisms used to promote their monetary interests, making a (legitimate) claim that doing so is beneficial to the user. The other day someone was asking why Facebook wants people to adopt to React, which is generally just a question about why all of these software vendors want to eat the world and become the source of everything that commands user attention. Yeah, actually it does - you just won't be solving everything with an xls file and you might actually be using a more appropriate tool for the problem, but I guarantee Google has an equivalent offering. > You could, if Google offered equivalent proprietary tech for the purpose, which it doesn't. Comparing the two apps at baseline there is no difference in sophisticated features. With enough time you could do the same thing in Google sheets with Google's proprietary scripting interface. The distinction isn't artificial: you can build upon excel as if it's a programming platform, but that doesn't make excel itself more powerful - all you've done is built yourself into a proprietary tech stack. It's also not meaningful in the real world where the artificial distinction between “base product” and “extras” has no meaning the actual product of Excel that businesses get has features for which Google Sheets has no equivalent. > Sure, if you define all the very real advantages Excel has as “extras”, that's true. Apps with tiny user bases no one cares about so no OSS options will ever emerge. There is no Linux or OSS alternative, the protocols aren't even published and no one cares to reverse engineer them as the market is just tiny, and the target audience has no overlap with the techies that are interested in Linux and the like.Īnd that's just one example, there are tons of crappy, outdated, proprietary apps like that out there. ![]() Often they have licenses that require hardware dongles, have bizarre drivers to communicate with the hardware and it feels like it's al held together with spit and ducktape. The manufacturers of those scales sell a piece of software to do that, but it's always a 100% Windows app, held together with all kinds of (outdated) MS technology like Visual FoxPro. Those scales are pretty much embedded PC's nowadays, they connect to the internet and can be remotely accessed to update product prices, promotions, get the daily sales numbers but also things like changing the logos and text on the receipt and a million other things. He sells weight scales for retail (think butchers, greengrocers, cheese shops, etc). There are clear paths to NOT use anything Microsoft if you want to.
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