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Well, it's down to who decides that an app is trustworthy. In the open source world, this is done through vetting by the community, whereas in Apple's case they can afford to hire people to do it. I agree that the community approach is likely to be better, but I don't think the Apple approach is inherently evil, just inefficient.

The stated goals of Apple for gatekeeping apps are practically the same as signing packages in the distros: To protect unwary users from installing malicious or broken applications. I think that's a worthy goal.
"Sina weibo, the popular microblogging service."? "Microblogging" is the generic term for Twitter clones, is it not?
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These are self-contained packages, include their own pre-configured copies of Apache, MySQL, etc. As far as I understand virtualenv only applies to Python + related packages, not other dependencies. But I agree that for many setups, virtualenv would work fine as well.
Really?

On a machine that makes Apple a ton of money from developers (where do you think most iPhone apps are written) will get an OS without a command prompt?

And you can see this happening?
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iOS started off as a closed environment unsuitable for development. As a web developer on the Mac I'm constantly using cross-platform command line programs, system utilities, and other development tools that would never make it through an Apple vetting process. If Apple killed the ability to install those programs in an update, I would absolutely have to abandon the Mac, and I'm sure I wouldn't be alone.
DDG and even Bing/Yahoo both need to index much more of the web if they want to be competitive. You just can't beat anyone in quality when you have fewer results to work with - it's just simple math. I hope DDG uses some of its investment money on solving this problem (as well as speed, but speed is secondary). The bang codes, privacy, etc are all great.
That's the way bitcoin mobile wallets are working: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.miracleas.bitcoin_...

Paying is very easy, just scan the QR code and push send. I guess we will have to wait couple of years before this kind of model becomes available for traditional money...
There is also a Growl clone. Surprised this took so long. Then again, I personally don't like Growl, so I hope nothing depends on it being turned on.

It seems that Apple adopted a similar model as Notifications Center on iOS in that you can decide on a per-app basis what they can do: banner, badge, sound… See this MacWorld's screenshot: http://images.macworld.com/images/article/2012/02/notificati...
Apple doesn't need to remove the "No unsigned code" option, they just need to scare users into being too afraid to use apps that aren't signed. And then your unsigned app, should you choose to try and distribute it, is in the same category as MacDefender and YourComputerIsInfected.

Apple is probably making the right decision for its users, but I still feel there is something we're losing here.
The thing I'm by far the most excited about is AirPlay Mirroring. If I'm reading this correctly, I'll be able to mirror anything from my Mac to my TV using an Apple TV. This will be great for watching Internet videos, going through my iPhoto library with my wife, looking at home videos, etc. All without needing a stupid cable from my couch to my TV.

The deeper iCloud integration is also intriguing. I assume this means proper syncing between documents on a Mac, iPad and iPhone. This will be a huge feature, and is currently a major stumbling block with iCloud. I want my documents to sync to my mobile devices.

Those two features alone are pretty big. Beyond that, I'm interested to here about the new APIs and anything else that has been changed under the hood.

OS X Lion has always been a little bit buggy (the latest release is pretty solid, however). I wonder if Mountain Lion will be like Snow Leopard where it tightens up a lot of things under the hood and gives us a better realization of the OS.

I'm excited for Gatekeeper for my parents and other people I know that aren't that tech savvy. This could save me a lot of headaches.
Quote from the Article: "The ‘Coming soon’ page should go live at a maximum of three months before the launch."

Absolutely agree. Many of my friends are launching coming soon pages without a solid launch plan. This hurts credibility and increases the team anxiety when the launch date has to be pushed even further.
He loves to comment on the Web. That's how he got the idea for his startup.
Couldn't they just scrape Yahoo? Yahoo is very lenient towards scrapers - you can survive with just 10 proxies cycling, I doubt they do any intelligent blocking like Google
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The major difference is that with Ubuntu, apps and the OS/desktop share the same release cycle.

I hope that could be decoupled, making life easier for application authors: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/application_quality_assurance_in_l...
I don't think the technology exists to make large tablets ergonomically feasible. In order for the tablet portion to be light enough to casually pick up and carry around, it would have to be not much larger than an iPad, which is to say, less than half the smallest reasonable screen size for a desktop.
I'm glad that you tried to install your own and failed. I wasn't convinced by second hand knowledge of a marketing presentation.
I used to use memrise, and enjoyed it, especially the gamification and the ability to put your own mnemonics in as well as see what images others used. But when they changed to a garden metaphor I lost track of what their algorithm was doing and went back to more traditional flashcardexchange.com mostly. I'll take another look though.
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Is that a serious question?

Here, let's try just one response and you just (safely) assume that it stands in for a myriad of other similarly horrible issues:

Likelihood that Apple will sell its CA root key to an unnamed Fortune 500 company under NDA to make some kind of software rollout problem simpler for them at the expense of the security of every Mac computer in the world? Zero.

Likelihood that an SSL CA will, after sucking the intestines out of a freshly killed puppy dog using its razor sharp SSL CA proboscis, sell its CA root key to an unnamed Fortune 500 company under NDA to make some kind of software rollout problem simpler for them at the expense of the security of every Mac computer in the world? Not zero. Not close to zero.
And all those years I was wondering if I was stupid to think that.

I'm eager to use it, but as I use Bootstrap I imagine it breaks it ?
Flagged because editorialized headline is factually incorrect.
Accidentally bans ultrabooks in the process.

http://mashable.com/2012/02/15/apple-patents-macbook-air/
This is an early preview. We don't know about all the new APIs and changes under the hood. Presumably there is a lot going on with the additional iCloud support.

One of these years Apple is going to discontinue carbon API support and go 64-bit only. I doubt this release is it, but those kinds of under-the-hood features are not the kinds of things that you would talk about at this point. We'll learn more at WWDC.
I don't have any experience with the Bump app but using the API was one of the worst experiences of my life.

Poor documentation, a number of undocumented bugs and general inconsistency of the API callbacks were incredibly frustrating. We used it for a simple app where the client wanted two devices to send a single string back and forth to one another. Debugging all the bugs with the Bump API became the most time consuming part of the project when it was suppose to save us time.

Maybe they'll have fixed some of these bugs in version 3.0 of the API but this is just a heads up for any developers who seen this and think using the API could be useful. Make sure you give yourself some extra time because it does not work out of the box. A lot of assembly is required.
The most worrying point to me (which other people might have already known) as that you can only access iCloud, or the new notifications, in your app if users get it through the app store.

This clearly means that non-app store apps are second class citizens. I had wanted to use iCloud in a program I'm working on at the moment. I'm now going to have to seriously think about if I'm willing to make my app only available through the app store, or not use iCloud.
Love this sentence:
Think about it, every event likes press coverage….and I was a quote on quote…“member of the press”!

Cheesy formatting, total misunderstanding of "quote unquote" - the use of quotation marks afterwards is priceless, and an attitude of having discovered and revealed some great secret which is in actuality a ploy so tired it has been in bad movies for decades.
This guy is passing, right. Definitely a dancing monkey.
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"Notes" still uses Marker Felt as the font, and faux yellow legal pad background?! Sigh. I thought Macs were for designers?
As a developer and anti-corporatist I think this is a thread to our freedom and will eventually result in the MacAppStore being a giant rip-off for developers.
However, as a son of parents who don't understand the difference between their Apple account and their Google account and call him because a webpage tells them that they have a virus and should download some shady program right now, I can appreciate this security measure.
I've done my learning in the Unix programming environment. It has forced me to learn the Unix toolset: grep, find, piping, little bash scripts for common tasks. Getting closer to the operating environment has helped make sense of the interactions among distinct components, ie how Python talks to Apache and the database.

I sort of trusted that lots of smart people have used this environment and that I'd learn a lot trying to emulate them. So far the only major disappointment has been the vi scripting tool, vimscript just feels like a dead end.

I do imagine that there is a lot of received wisdom embedded in something like Eclipse -- just browsing the menus would probably suggest all sorts of helpful tools and practices. I keep meaning to check it out, but just haven't made the time.
And he's saying that this change is for the worse. He has made substantive arguments, and you have responded with a useless platitude.
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They don’t want to be forced to play catch up like Microsoft had to. It’s not that hard to figure out.
Then I will keep using Lion in hope they release a real OS X update sometime in the future for which I would pay play gladly as I've been doing with all the previous updated, because right now Mountain Lion is just a bunch of iOS Apps ported to OS X.

I'm sorry, but IMO the value of this update is $0.
Inertia == force. Just sayin'
It refuses to check the quality of shared SSL certs.
The Firefox on my work desktop (7, Linux) slows to a crawl on that site, I suspect it's because of the doodle effect. Annoying gimmick, sorry.
It took me a while to get used to Lion's reverse scroll, which in retrospect seems like a layup for this release, but I've come to enjoy it.
I am excited as well in AirPlay Mirroring so i watched several times in the demo. It seems video plays with Quicktime. So lot's of video formats are not compatible like mkv's, iso's etc...

If somehow i am able to mirror VLC i will run and buy Apple TV at once.
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Where did he say that? I think I missed it on his blog (just looked again and didn't see it). Did he say it in a podcast (maybe Kindacritical)?
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iCloud is not a drive you store your data on. iCloud syncs data and changes between your devices. So you have local copies of a document on your iPhone and Mac. Make a change on your Mac and it will show up on the iPhone. Both devices have local copies. In other words you will always have your data.

The only things stored on iCloud are device backups and iTunes purchases.
$100 does not stop anyone from realizing their dreams. Teenagers know how to make extra cash. $100 is less than 2 days work at a minimum wage job.

I would much rather have teenagers work to be able to pay $100 to distribute signed applications than make it free for anyone (malware makers) to distribute signed apps.

The trade off isn't even close here. It's free to develop the app, and even distribute it outside of the app store. If you want to go into the app store, you'll need $100, which helps keep software more secure for millions of people.
Pedantic: MM means 2 tousand if we are really to stick to roman numerals.
Yes, with the difference that the other OS X updates were not just a bunch of iOS Apps ported to the Mac, that why I paid for them and that's why if Mountain Lion is release with a price tag over $0 I'll keep using Lion (and hopefully this will incentivize Apple to make a real OS X update somewhere in 2013-2014).
Since os 8.something I've always felt that my mac is a workhorse. It's like I've had to have a mac, I a professional designer damnit.

But this update feels like it's creeping towards a heavily consumer facing product. My workhorse is being swapped for a show pony...

(no doubt it'll still do the job, it just a totally unfounded feeling I have)
And that's the point the Apple TV goes from a hobby to a major product.

Spending a £1000 on a Mac - I reckon another £100 for an Apple TV with that functionality as the hook is a pretty easy up sell.
For the record, I've never been discourteous. While I might loath their professions, I do understand that they're just doing their jobs, and I respect and appreciate that.

Also, to jchrisa's point, I can't imagine what, if anything, I might be doing to foster negativity. I'm a professional white male. I sometimes travel in suits, which may set off some innate animosity, but I've experienced the same negativity dressed in plain clothes.

I've often been described as "friendly-looking" and "approachable", and am careful to ensure that my demeanor isn't in any way offputting while I'm at the airport.

I'm not saying that I'm the nicest guy in the world or anything, but it genuinely surprised me to hear that other people who opt out don't share my experience.
As long as Apple controls which versions of OS X iTunes runs on (and they've been rough on Mac users in the past - at least as compared to Windows users), they have all the tools they need to avoid "fragmentation".
You're not. The continuing IOSification of OSX is something that has been bugging me too and part of why, to date, I've yet to upgrade to Lion. It looks like Apple wants to create a more iOS-like approach across all its products, which is fine if you buy into the whole ecosystem.

It also seems there's a trend here, with Apple bringing iOS increasingly into OSX and Microsoft bringing Windows Phone into Windows 8, the only operating systems which still are aimed primarily at computer users are Unix or Linux based.
I think you may be missing tptacek's point. Things like code signing make it harder for bad things to run without the user's permission.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe I'm wrong but I was under the impression sponsored links were not adequate to fund the growing site.
Not to derail the thread, but I think the entire "first world problem" meme, though useful in that it reminds us of our relative privilege, isn't totally fair to either the people experiencing the problem or to the people solving it.

First world problems are still problems. And the existence of people experiencing much worse problems doesn't mean those first world problems are not worth solving. Indeed, virtually any problem could be considered not worth solving if you can identify anyone anywhere in the world in a worse off situation. Typing in a couple words and having a machine return documents automatically based on the input isn't a solution to a real problem, because people exist in East Palo Alto who are functionally illiterate. Finding a cure for Alzheimer's isn't a solution to a real problem, because a supermajority of people in Zimbabwe die decades before they might even get it. It's all a matter of degree.

And if you buy into market economics, it's not even clear that focusing on first world problems is a detriment to solving other problems. If the parent spends 10 minutes buying a plane ticket instead of 2 hours because of the implementation of an "everywhere" option, that creates a consumer surplus that could very well be worth a couple hundred dollars. Flyers can be routed to places on planes that are underutilized, reducing GHG emissions by a meaningful amount (which is incredibly valuable for residents of developing nations). Hundreds of thousands (millions? I don't know the market size) of person-hours could be saved. Some of that value inevitably would trickle down to people with graver problems.
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This seems like a nice introduction guide to caching but it seems a bit dated.

It does not mention using varnish, memcache, redis or anything similar. And it talks of CGI scripting being one of the most popular ways to generate content.
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I for one welcome our new OS-level code signature verification overlords. May they smite evil and incompetence swiftly and brutally...except when 'evil' is defined by foreign governments, domestic law enforcement, or fair competition with built-in features.

With great power comes great "you guys better not fuck this up."
so web developers are bad at convincing/advising their peers?

You know, since we're over generalizing to empty statements anyways.
And then Apple will be able to start charging for developer IDs. To help prevent malware authors obtaining developer IDs of course.
Neither of these will work, because (a) the signing key is per-developer and (b) the entire point is that when your malware is found to be signed with key X, key X is revoked and your software no longer runs. That's the purpose of the system...
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Read what Gruber writes about that Gatekeep feature:

Read what the world's biggest Mac-shill has to say to defend the world's least open company and biggest patent-troll?

Thanks, but no thanks.

I'll go for something open and free, and you wont get anything like that out of Cupertino.
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While I agree that DDG should keep it simple, two of the three Google examples you've given -- Gmail and Maps -- are products I rely heavily on, and am glad Google decided to branch out for those two products alone.

I would have listed other, more toxic and/or embarrassingly unsuccessful examples, like:

- Privacy practices
- Adsense/Adwords
- Search personalization "features"
- Docs
- Buzz
- Jaiku
- Wave
- etc...
You can't arbitrarily drag windows from space to space in the "expose" view in Lion, as far as I can tell. You have to 1) Switch to the space the window is open in and then 2) Drag the window from the current space to another. I liked Spaces much better.
It would be great if they brought those other protocols to the iOS Messages app as well
If you install Perian, Quicktime supports expands to include many more formats
http://perian.org/

But I agree and would welcome the support for VLC too!
I should possibly have been clearer - from the perspective of software development.

Even with those three it's not closed. I read Kindle books on my iPhone (and use iBooks as nothing more the a PDF reader as it goes), just the purchasing model isn't as streamlined as Amazon would like.
I'm willing to bet that Apple is going to allow free certificates without having to pay a cent when Mountain Lion launches; Apple already did this for Safari Extensions, for example. (Safari Extensions must be signed, but anyone can request for a cert.)

It's also interesting that Apple is using the word "the _new_ Developer ID" in their developer site[1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/technologies/mountain-lion/
A really interesting article. Really wonder how and what companies like Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, have learned through data mining.
It gets worse; can also call it up with a two-finger swipe to the left. Not sure why they're so intent on overloading that gesture.

Two fingers in SL:

* Scroll.

Two fingers in ML:

* Scroll

* or back/forward

* or Notification Center
I'm wondering if Apple have described the circumstances, apart from the malware scenario, in which they would revoke a developer ID and the associated signing certificate?

Also, do users get the choice to accept a certificate revocation?
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From what I can see it's just screen sharing isn't it? Play something in VLC in fullscreen and you're fine. They use Quicktime for the demo because it's an Apple product but I don't believe it's a limitation.

If Apple have to throw Quicktime under the bus to sell more Apple TVs and Macs I think they'll happily do it.
You're right that the rise of Mac App Store-only APIs is more troubling. This is a "boil the frog slowly" trick. Today, you can run all the unapproved software you want, but, someday, if Apple makes the APIs compelling enough, you won't want to.

That being said, it isn't like the switch (and its parameters) and the development of Mac App Store-only APIs can't be trends that reinforce each other, of course.
Removing the "No unsigned code" option is not possible today, I agree. But one day in the future when 99% of apps are signed, because it's free right, so who wouldn't? We find ourselves in a completely different scenario... Is the freedom of that 1% of apps more important than protecting users?
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A license is $99. If you can afford a Mac to develop on your can certainly afford a $99 license.

They reason the have the fee is to keep out people who aren't serious about development. If they didn't have it for example the forums would be overrun with people who just signed up to get the latest OS beta complaining about bugs (this is already a problem at $99).

People can still develop and distribute apps without ever signing up with Apple. This restriction is a good protection step for users imo.
Just a design patent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent], nothing to see here. Don't make your ultra book look like an air and you are fine. (Hint: pay attention to materials, radiuses, colors, and angles.)

How close you can get involves how much tolerance you have for litigation and risking a loss.
the last sentence is pure gold. apple, are you listening?
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Thanks! I've accepted that I'm not going to win the popular vote (evidently don't have the social media chops!) but still hope to place somewhere respectable.