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They Literally Don't Make Things Like They Used To – SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. In today's episode, we look at Planned Obsolescence, the resulting mountains of e-waste, and why companies don't want you to be able to fix their crummy products.

If you expect Cody to be nice to Apple, you will be very disappointed.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Name an OS this is not true of.

Not the person you've been replying to. However it's not true of most any other major OS. There are always outliers. But there's plenty of software that can be compiled to run on any major OS. As long as it wasn't written by Apple. Windows apps can run under Linux. Linux apps can run under Windows. Android apps can run under both. And both with a bit of work can function in android. That's not even mentioning BSD. Whose shoulders apple is standing on while giving next to nothing back.

Now that isn't to say that all that is possible because the makers of all those systems are working together. Far from. Microsoft has done next to nothing themselves to facilitate their software to run elsewhere. And someday perhaps apple software might enjoy the same ability. However that does not detract from the fact that Apple currently is acting in the worst ways Microsoft used to act. And are working to build an impenetrable user hostile Walled Garden.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I suppose I can agree with that, but as you said that has nothing to do with the companies themselves, and more to do with third party communities working towards intercompatibility. I wouldn’t really count that as a point against Apple, nor a point for any of the other OSs.

I will, however, admit that Linux distros tend to be cross compatible, but that’s more because they haven’t diverged “enough” from core Linux.

Though what I really meant by that, was that you can’t take a compiled executable from one OS and move it onto another, and have it work without some sort of compatibility layer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apple is actively trying to stop interoperability. Hardware and software with no valid justification. They've become worse than the monsters people once perceived them to stand against. The company has built some decent hardware and software. None of that justifies their behavior.

Also linux/bsd/ plan9/ haiku etc etc etc all tend to be interoperable because they generally adhere to The posix Standard. Which is also why windows can run Linux binaries Etc. There is no such thing as core Linux. Indeed Darwin the neglected underpinnings of OS X is posix compliant itself being a bastardized version of BSD. The incompatibility is only start where Apple begins. The fact that Apple created its own separate apis called metal etc instead of using the widely used and proven standards taking after Microsoft. Proves they are out to quash.