Yeah, that’s perfectly reasonable. Of course I want people to benefit from a feature if it can; like I said, I probably won’t have cause to turn it off myself, even. And yes the process for doing so, while it could theoretically be socially engineered, is probably safe against accidents, given that you need to take an explicit step and are prompted for confirmation. In fact one dev was saying that it was easier to use recovery than a command-line equivalent, though that’s probably a bit of an exaggeration. I often wish you could do that on iOS too; now that really is a prison without an exit, but if it only had an “Are you sure, you’re on your own here, no warranty, don’t say you weren’t warned” prompt, I’m sure most people would get that they were crossing the sacred threshold, leaving room for innovators to do their thing and, assuming no clear security holes, proceed safely if they knew what and what not to do, much as on Mac today.
But what I worry about most—and continue to worry about, despite my love of Apple products—is Apple’s apparent need to drive this trend. How can they not have ulterior motives? Steve Jobs always said of the iOS restrictions that “Our intentions are pure”. He’s convinced devs as much. And honestly, it’s clear that mobile is the future and that there are real security concerns. But sandboxing, alternative whitelists, granular permissions, user accounts and even, now, virtualisation all exist as byproducts of the mobile future, and don’t need a one true gatekeeper. It’s hard to believe Apple isn’t on this path for the wrong reasons. The kindest thing to suggest is that they simply don’t trust their own Mac-using userbase, and prefer a strategy of restriction over education. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
