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by dc-programmer 1559 days ago
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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Gigachad 1559 days ago
Apple Health is not a walled product though. Any 3rd party app can pull and push data.
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asdff 1559 days ago
Not really the case for their computers imo. OS X is like a linux distro but with paid maintainers.
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dc-programmer 1559 days 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
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whimsicalism 1559 days ago
Try getting Siri to use google maps :)
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asdff 1559 days 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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