Apple's run amok
17 years of Macs and now considering Linux when good old 10.6 runs out of steam in a couple of years. Amazing that Apple is having a hard time realizing that fewer choices does not always equal simplicity.
ok - so grab your tinfoil hats everyone, the conspiracy theorist has arrived...
If all of us walked into a bog box store and bought a brand new computer, and suddenly as we were checking out the sales person says "oh .. by the way... the only software this runs is from the manufacturer, you have to go to their store to get it" we'd all walk out (or laugh... or both).
but when apple says "the only software you can have is what we put on our app store" as it relates to mobile phones we say "ok!".
so for my part, i'm leaving the iPhone completely and going android.
However, for desktop computers, i don't have the same luxury. And now that apple has its hands all over mac apps in their app store, it's already killing my productivity.
I can't believe people are putting up with this sandboxing bulls**t and not complaining. Are you f'n kidding me?!
Here at our studio we use an app called Wiretap Anywehre from Ambrosia software. It's an absolutely essential app for us for the radio show we produce so that we can route audio from any app to any other app. We've been using it for years without issue.
When lion was introduced it suddenly stopped working properly. We could not longer pick the app we wanted to route from and to - so now if we want to record audio we can record ALL system audio, or none.
Why? Because of sandboxing. They hadn't updated their app and they could have gotten around it and fixed it but when i called to find out why a fix was taking so long the answer was "because there isn't' one coming". when i asked why they said it was because of the new app store requirements around sand boxing. So I said "so don't put it on the store, just distribute online". and the guy .. literally said "look.. we want to stay in business, and if we don't put our stuff in the app store apple has made it clear they will not take our other apps".
are you f'n kidding me...
i tried to warn everyone about giving apple this kind of power....
Dear God... there needs to be a new competitor in the desktop space like android is in the handheld space.. we need something that's not windows, and not mac.
17 years of Macs and now considering Linux when good old 10.6 runs out of steam in a couple of years. Amazing that Apple is having a hard time realizing that fewer choices does not always equal simplicity.