macOS Catalina Preview
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Always nice to see Apple push further on both the privacy and accessibility front too.
The limits functionality is new to me. As a parent (with children too young for devices) it is appealing to have services like this by default, so that we can set the expectations early when we do introduce them. Even if it's not Apple, this will drive it into other manufacturers etc.
> macOS Catalina runs in its own read-only volume, so it’s separate from all other data on your Mac, and nothing can accidentally overwrite your system files. And Gatekeeper ensures that new apps you install have been checked for known security issues before you run them, so you’re always using good software.
This is particularly interesting too. I can definitely see the support implications here, but it will be interesting to see how tools like homebrew etc. play in this read-only world.
On Linux it seems there's maybe 1% of this in each major update (not their fault of course)
It's too bad -- if things were easier and more advanced I would expect people like UX professionals to want to contribute to build up their portfolio.
And Linux has to compete with that.
It's really more astonishingly impressive that Linux gets what it does, when you compare their resources to that of the absurdly wealthy and powerful Microsoft, Google, and Apple.
Marginally interesting are updates to Reminder and Notes. The separate volume for the system is interesting, but there's nothing else.
On the contrary, Linux does come with interesting things, but they trickle down continuously in smaller doses, there's no once-in-a-year bombastic conference where they are introduced all at once, so the optics is different.