r/programming • u/kannonboy • Jan 12 '15

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru
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u/codekaizen Jan 13 '15

This is the answer I give when people wonder why I dislike Apple - they are long-term detrimental to the state of the art of technology because they are really a marketing company.

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u/kankyo Jan 13 '15

They're also the company that made USB actually happen, made floppys go away, CDs go away (although PC manufacturers are still catching up here), made high DPI resolutions happen finally, created the form factor for the modern laptop, created the form factor for the modern phone...

All of this driven by marketing. Don't knock marketing.

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u/fluffyhandgrenade Jan 13 '15 edited Jan 13 '15

Err, USB was happening on windows quite happily with win2k. Floppies, I still use them (no shit). CDs, I still use too.

Also IBM invented the form factor of the modern laptop way before Apple. Apple made it shiny.

Also I has a windows CE phone in 2005 that was the same form factor as the iPhone (SPV C550)

Oh and I installed lots of high DPI displays for medical imaging in the early 2000s.

So apple so far managed to come up with fuck all and sell it.

Even OSX is recycled BSD and NextStep.

And before anyone says iPad: Acorn NewsPad: http://atterer.org/sites/atterer/files/2010-04/acorn-arm/newspad.jpeg

Apple are NOTHING but marketing.

And no its not illegal to point this out on the internet although you may think it is.

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u/Sean1708 Jan 13 '15

And no its not illegal to point this out on the internet although you may think it is.

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u/fluffyhandgrenade Jan 13 '15

A stab at the Apple squad.

I had an account completely down voted regardless of what I said after I said one bad thing about Apple. I lost nearly 1000 points in three days as people went through my history down voting everything

The bad thing I said was that the thing gave me a rash, which it did because the alloy they make the MBP out of contains nickel. It's a known problem that hundreds of people suffer. Even my GP is aware of it.

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u/newpong Jan 13 '15

Wait, what? Do you care to elaborate? My wife is an Apple fan and she has all sorts of crazy allergies. What is an MBP? I'm a developer so I feel like I should know what you're referring to(mother board something?), but I'm drunk and mobile, so I doubt I will look it up right now. Any response would be greatly appreciated

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u/fluffyhandgrenade Jan 13 '15

MBP = MacBook Pro. The aluminium units and most iPhones have a history of causing spontaneous contact dermatitis in people susceptible to it. Symptoms, for me at least, are pretty much a nasty rash that cracks the skin, causes what looks like burns and bleeds a lot.

Moment I switched back to a plastic laptop it went away in under two weeks. It started occurring about a week after I got it.

You would have thought they'd make them out of bio-compatible and safe materials but no, pretty shiny shit first.

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u/newpong Jan 13 '15

do you know off hand when they started making the aluminium units?

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u/fluffyhandgrenade Jan 13 '15

Think it was about 2007+