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| Authored by: complex_number on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 06:03 PM EDT |
The only thing I have ever bought from the appStore is the OSX Upgrade.
I really don't get what the big deal is about using/no using it is. IMHO, it is
just like buying an Upgrade to Photoshop from Adobe or any other software maker
that has its own store for that matter.
Whilst I use Linux every day as a server OS, I find that OSX is very much the
lesser of two evils when it comes to the Desktop and the choice is between
Windows or OSX. I know that for many people Linux works just fine on the desktop
but for my needs, especially wrt my photo editing, nothing in the FOSS world
comes close (IMHO )to the combination of Lightroom and Photoshop.
For my work documentation I also have to use Windows. LibreOffice or OpenOffice
just messes up the corporate templates too much. I'm sure an expert could sort
it out but I'd frankly rather just get the job done even if it means using
software from Redmond. If I don't get the job done, then I don't get any
income.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 08:51 PM EDT |
Hmmm, lessee, ResEdit, didn't that come from Apple?
/Developer/ is available from every OS-X installer.
MacOS-X Server/Command Line Admin was freely downloadable.
But yes, it's sliding into the consumer abyss. My local Apple Store
was unable to sell me the latest version of iLife, on disc or USB.
So after a painful three hour download I find it can't handle the output
from my camera.
Recently in China my wifi card died in my netbook, so I fired up Safari
on the iPod Touch to get to gmail. Immediately all my third party
installed apps stopped working??!! I thought it might be some
phone-home anti theft connection that found me 10,000km from
my home address, so I went to the App Store, to be told there were
updates for all apps, did I want to install? No thank you. And all
worked normally from then. Go figure...
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