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0 pointsdc-programmer4y ago0 comments

Apple’s garden (orchard?) is famously walled. This just means they intentionally make their hardware incompatible with other hardware/software. Presumable so you have to buy more Apple stuff

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Gigachad4y ago

Apple Health is not a walled product though. Any 3rd party app can pull and push data.

asdff4y ago

Not really the case for their computers imo. OS X is like a linux distro but with paid maintainers.

dc-programmerOP4y ago

It’s more of an aspirational wall. If they could get away with it, 3rd party software on the Mac would go the way of the headphone jack

whimsicalism4y ago

Try getting Siri to use google maps :)

asdff4y ago

I consider Siri like some mold from iOS that has spread and polluted OSX, rather than a fundamental part of OSX.

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0 pointsdc-programmer4y ago0 comments

Apple’s garden (orchard?) is famously walled. This just means they intentionally make their hardware incompatible with other hardware/software. Presumable so you have to buy more Apple stuff

0 comments

Gigachad4y ago

Apple Health is not a walled product though. Any 3rd party app can pull and push data.

asdff4y ago

Not really the case for their computers imo. OS X is like a linux distro but with paid maintainers.

dc-programmerOP4y ago

It’s more of an aspirational wall. If they could get away with it, 3rd party software on the Mac would go the way of the headphone jack

whimsicalism4y ago

Try getting Siri to use google maps :)

asdff4y ago

I consider Siri like some mold from iOS that has spread and polluted OSX, rather than a fundamental part of OSX.

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