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tonymet 3 hours ago

You can tell MacOS was developed by OS nerds but stifled by product managers. There are a lot of gems like Sandboxing and Hyperkit with incredible features and practically no user interface.

otterley an hour ago | parent [-]

Why is not spending resources to develop infrequently-used features that aren't revenue streams "stifling"? Granted, I too would love to have nice UIs for those out of the box, but > 99.9% of Mac users don't care, and 3rd-party developers can pick up the slack and maybe make some money filling the gap.

tonymet an hour ago | parent [-]

that's the short-term, MBA-style mindset to which I'm referring. Much of the popularity of MacOS came from the open source community filling that gap despite lacking support. So there is clearly demand that the PMs were not tapping into.

It would be fine if Apple was providing the APIs, docs and support to stimulate 3rd party tools. Hyperkit sat undocumented for 15+ years until a proper hypervisor platform was built on top of it. This sandboxing framework is another example.