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> Look at iTunes -- it's walled off, and expects to be the only one ever > touching its stuff. It's difficult to do syncs between machines, it's > difficult to generate playlists through other mechanisms, it's difficult > to switch back and forth between different mp3 players, etc. Hmmm. I use "cp -pR" to copy my iTunes Music Library to my USB hard drive to take it to work. I have even used "find ... | grep -l" to generate an m3u file for a share. > I want all of my applications to be turned inside out; rather than there > being a hard shell around all of the functionality, with some limited > exposure to that functionality from the outside, I want the whole app to > be available from the outside, including the ability to swap pieces in > and out according to whim. I guess we have different ideas of what this means, because Mac OS seems to be better about this than just about any environment I've used. I mean, I can do stuff to GUI apps on OS X that require source code to do on anything else, whether through Applescript, through the files in the Appdir, or just editing their defaults databases... and while it's nice to have source it sure makes Applescripting look friendly. The opacity of GUI apps on EVERY OTHER OS has been a burning hate for me for years. Mac OS X is like Maalox for my geek soul. > I do know why this isn't possible, though: because it gives _me_ > control of the app, instead of Steve-o, which doesn't fit with his > megalomaniacal world model. Thank God Apple is still a niche player -- > if they ever got to be as big as Microsoft, I'm convinced they would be > 10x worse. That may be true, but that doesn't mean they haven't done a good job here. But then I'm weird, I find good things in every OS, even ones that drive me to despite and despair, so maybe I'm a soft touch.There's stuff above here
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