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No your problem is you brought over your expectations from non-macOS systems and the. expected the Mac to be similar. That isn’t how it works. Do you complain that Windows doesn’t have a bash or that Linux doesn’t support ACLs easily?


Even as kids we were fiddling with batch/bash scripts, how many kids do you see using apple script or whatever? It's the ease of accessibility.

Powershell now is lot more powerful than what Apple can dream to offer. MacOS is an opinionated OS for people who want to do simple tasks. MacOS apart from good looks offers nothing else.


> MacOS is an opinionated OS for people who want to do simple tasks.

Sums up how I feel about MacOS perfectly.

Which is why I'm so utterly baffled that it's become so popular among tech workers.


> Do you complain that Windows doesn’t have a bash or that Linux doesn’t support ACLs easily?

Don't both of those exist now?

The reason the Mac is more "app-centric" is Conway's law; developers own apps so it's thought if you tried breaking apart an app it would fail, since previous "document-centric" efforts like OpenDoc failed.




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