{"id":7331,"date":"2013-04-18T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2013-04-18T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T16:46:26","slug":"the-default-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/the-default-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Default Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watts Martin<\/a> (via John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n

If there’s something I could do with OS X 10.6 that I can’t do with OS X 10.8, I haven’t found it yet. My software all still works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wish someone would make a list, because it surely wouldn’t be empty. Spaces has been reduced from two dimensions to one. Xcode and other apps have become less AppleScriptable. Safari<\/a> has become buggy<\/a>. Changes to Sync Services, without adequate replacements, broke Outlook<\/a> and Yojimbo<\/a>. Some things have improved, for sure, but there is also a lot that has become more limited, closed, or broken.<\/p>\n

Again, no real evidence supports this—the iOS elements that have been migrated to OS X have not<\/em> resulted in OS X becoming more locked down. And there’s no reason to think that more OS X technologies won’t move to iOS, making it less<\/em> locked down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s apparently never heard of sandboxing. Some apps bought from the Mac App Store on 10.6 have either had features removed or can no longer be updated. It also affects apps outside the Mac App Store. For example, Mail on 10.8 is sandboxed, which affects what plug-ins<\/a> can do. Locking down Safari also affected plug-ins such as<\/a> 1Password<\/a>. Will Aperture plug-ins be next? Spotlight is also more locked down, which broke a feature of one of my apps. Restrictions<\/a> on NSDistributedNotificationCenter<\/code> affect the kinds of services that apps can provide.<\/p>\n

While iOS is<\/em> locked down by comparison—and there are some things that definitely do<\/em> need to be opened up with respect to inter-application communication—an iOS device is an application console. We don’t complain (much) about a PlayStation 3 being “locked down” because it’s a game console. That’s what they do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is circular reasoning, with an appeal to a nebulous term that Apple has never used. The bottom line is that some people have needs that the product isn’t meeting. They can either go without (and try to influence future versions of the product) or switch to a different product (which has other drawbacks). Appeals to terminology attempt to shut down discussion without addressing the underlying issues in a constructive way.<\/p>\n

It’s like saying in the early 80s: you don’t understand, it’s a Mac. It’s not supposed to have color, internal storage, networking, multiple processes, arrow keys, a compiler, a command line, etc.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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