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Re: Apple turn iPhone security issue into 'Nothing to see here move along'
A SF author, Charlie Stross, has his own view on why Apple is the way it is - Link - as part of a rant on so-called mobile technology.
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For starters I'm going to nail my colours to the mast and declare that I am a Mac user. There: I said it! I dislike Windows. Partly this is because I come from UNIX-land — I pre-date Windows — and I expect my operating systems to make sense, and to be designed along consistent lines. Windows wasn't designed along consistent lines; it just sort of happened, and bits got bolted on top. If operating systems were houses, Windows would be a chaotic jumbled rookery. Mac OS X is the current best-of-breed desktop workstation environment in UNIX-land; and although stuff's been bolted on top over the years, there's still a relatively clean BSD layer underneath all the cruft. Linux would be a contender if you could collectively slap the development community around the head with Apple's circa-1985 Human Interface Guidelines, but as things stand they're more interested in featuritis than usability.
Apple, for all their sins — have you noticed how Steve Jobs comes to resemble a Bond villain more with every passing year? — understand the value of industrial design (vital at a consumer level), and know that raw computing power is useless if the users can't get at it (vital at a developer level). Apple, as a friendly hack of my acquaintance put it, has one single customer: Steve. For any given product, if Steve doesn't like it, it doesn't ship. And Steve is reputedly a perfectionist a-hole and a control freak. These are personality traits I hate in my customers, but adore in my suppliers. So count me in on the cult of Mac (up to a point).
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