And, all of that said, Apple hasn't said anything about not letting people have full access to their disks. Just that you're going to have to be very intentional, click through a very scary warning, to do so. Happy to do that to prevent my mom or dad from accidentally opening up their machine to every hacker in Belarus or worse yet Facebook
Correct. This is why gun safety is taught. Try and bring up banning shotguns in the US and see what happens.
b) there are plenty of options for completely open computing platforms. Apple has every right to build the platform they want to build, and you as a consumer have every right to go buy a Framework laptop and install Debian on it instead if you don't like it
For now.
Younger folks are skipping computers entirely and doing their work on mobile devices. Computer literacy is falling. Demand for computers is going to continue falling as those kids grow up. They won't need to touch a computer unless their future job requires it. Not even school would need it - many already use their phone/tablet or a Chromebook to do school work.
Nobody is taking away our computers but, overall, they are being replaced with closed platforms. It is just a question of how much of them can actually be replaced and will it be a big enough market to keep developing desktop Windows/macOS/Linux?
that said, we've never been closer to Linux on the Desktop (TM) than we are right now, even if it's through dumb stuff like Omarchy. There's no risk today that you won't be able to, in 10 years, buy an x86 or ARM laptop and put some flavor of Linux on it for personal use
Is it because of most of virus/malware target Windows OS due to its sheer size, or because MacOS security system is more superior than Windows ?
I also less likely to get hack if i open url link on templeOS
God doesn't believe in the networking stack so you're good
Then take away cars as someone could crash and kill themselves with them. What kind of babyified logic is that?
When my mother in law switched from (XP-era) Windows to OS X, she expressed a profound sense of relief that she didn't have to worry so much about accidentally breaking it. She has absolutely no desire to learn computers well enough to understand a system that gives her more control. In her experience it never enabled her to do anything particularly relevant to her own interests, and mostly accomplished the complete opposite by leaving her slightly afraid to do anything. My own efforts to try and explain her computer problems and how to avoid them in the future did not help; they only served to communicate to her that the computer was indeed complicated and scary.
Limitations ARE a liberating force. No limitations is having skyscrapers with doors opening to outside, because people should have the choice to step out among the birds and the clouds.
The Vision Pro could (in terms of hardware) be the Mac successor. Just the virtual Mac screen feature alone is great ... but the rest is "It's an iPad! But in 3D!" Ugh.
Don't underestimate the power of Apple's dream of locking everything down.
Apple's priorities (as Daring Fireball notes), are Apple, customers, something, something, something, ...., developers and suppliers.
I think Tim Cook missed his chance to leave a Steve Jobs like mark on Apple when he championed a next generation graphical interface on next generation hardware, but only for toy apps and media.
And for those that think "what could 3D/spacial really do for interfaces?", don't think exciting, just think about the simple perks that grow into usefulness, like your entire environment being (Mac-level capable) screens as you work. Consider how much of the real world and its activities, problems and structure are in 3D. And how people adapted to 2D graphical interfaces not because "wow!", but because many mundane things, like editing a table and writing a letter, got easier. And a lot of new mundane things became possible/practical.
That won't happen on a Vision "Pro" limited to being a toy app platform, media kiosk, and Apple iCloud services recurring revenue store front.
The software limitations are why it isn't worth the price, not the hardware.
The negativity here climbs up out of my deep love for my Vision Pro.
If you don't like System Integrity Protection on your Mac, you can turn it off and YOLO to your heart's content.
If you want to be responsible for your own compute security, you can run Linux.
IMO this is a good balance: hobbyist or professionals who know what they’re doing have an OS, and people who don’t care can go to Best Buy. Everyone wins