This gives us a clue. The Apple Design Awards are traditionally given to extraordinary software developers working on Apple platforms, but as of this year, coders working on OSX are no longer eligable: it’s all about the iPhone and iPad only, which of course Apple controls with an iron fist.
It’s been fun to use OSX these last 10 years or so, but it’s becoming more and more clear that the Pilgrim solution may be in my future. I think Lightroom is the only thing I’d really have trouble replacing.
Apple has always been more proprietary than IBM and Microsoft combined. This was just as true in the 1980s as it is now. And it’s why Apple fanbois have always been mocked as silly people… ;-)
That makes sense only if you ignore the fact that OSX is the best implementation of desktop Unix ever, and is based on FreeBSD. That was a huge step in the right direction, and saved Apple’s bacon.
The desktop platform itself is open and usable by anyone. You need no permission from anyone to make software for it, and there’s actually pretty minimal lock-in (unless you buy video from iTunes).