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by PunchyHamster2 hours ago |
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upvoteby inventor77771 hours ago|
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Is Apple taking steps to purposefully blocking open stuff, or are they just pointedly ignoring it and continuing to develop new hardware? I am genuinely asking, I don't know myself.

edit: speaking mostly about macOS here, mobile OSes are much more locked down

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upvoteby Dylan168071 hours ago|
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For desktops and laptops, the latter. But for phones and tablets they do not want user control. And even where they do allow it, even a tiny effort in hardware documentation that would make it so much easier never happens. So it's quite hostile overall.
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upvoteby inventor777757 minutes ago|
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Yep, good point. Their mobile OSes are annoyingly locked down, that is for sure...
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upvoteby lmz1 hours ago|
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The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.
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upvoteby londons_explore1 hours ago|
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And I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.

It was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.

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upvoteby musictubes1 hours ago|
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Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.

You can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.

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upvoteby londons_explore1 hours ago|
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It will still run arbitrary code... Within macos...

But they'll remove support for other OS's

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upvoteby GeekyBear13 minutes ago|
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The company making locked down laptops is Google.
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upvoteby r_lee54 minutes ago|
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I mean it'd be pretty easy for Apple to just make a special version of the OS/bootloader/whatever for their internal use
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upvoteby internet200020 minutes ago|
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They could. They won't. Macs will never be bootloader locked, on that I'm confident.
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upvoteby rstupek1 hours ago|
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It’s the latter
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upvoteby novafunc20 minutes ago|
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I had a bad experience with my Lenovo laptop. It had a firmware issue that caused the trackpad to become unresponsive after suspend and Lenovo never fixed it.

Made the laptop miserable to use, so I went for a MacBook instead which wouldn't have such an obvious issue be unfixed because Apple has so few SKUs to support.

Also went for it in part because I do not like Windows and macOS typically would save me when Linux support was lacking. Just had to hope for a quick port of Asahi Linux to become (unfortunately didn't happen for my M3, but thankfully it's been progressing recently).

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upvoteby procone2 hours ago|
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I think you might be forgetting where you are. They call it "Hacker News" for a reason.
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upvoteby mahboi36 minutes ago|
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Yep. There's a post somewhere here about someone running Mac OS X on a Nintendo Wii. That's closed software on closed hardware.
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