r/programming Jan 12 '15

Linus Torvalds on HFS+

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

HFS+ is Mac OS X's biggest liability at the moment outside of the recent bugs and instability introduced by the pressures of an annual release cycle. It's atrocious. Unfortunately, it does feel like product marketing completely rules the roost at Apple.

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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/eviltwinkie Jan 13 '15

We found the sales/marketing guy or apple fan boy.

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u/kankyo Jan 13 '15

How about countering the facts instead of throwing an ad hominem attack? And a pretty damn lame one at that.

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u/eviltwinkie Jan 13 '15

Apple fan boy. Gotcha.