A lot of this is support. If you’re self hosting, when things don’t work the way they should, the team has no one to blame. On AWS, they can always lean on aws not working the way it should as an excuse.
I can't say much about the macOS market, but I do know that MDM-style APIs are practically the only way to write a third party control app for mobile devices. With the way Apple is moving macOS more and more towards their control, this may happen on the desktop in the future as well.
Schools also tend to use MDMs, but often in combination with Chromebooks which don't typically run third party software anyway.
For certain types of apps from the mac app store vs installed directly (mostly VPNs), they also have to use the MDM APIs and install profiles on the device to function.
So if a home user, for example, uses Tailscale and installed it via the mac app store, they'd flag as being MDM managed if the software used the code in the article.
Fonts on iPad work the same way, the font apps install an MDM profile to install the fonts on the device because Apple gates this behind that for some stupid reason.
Like you said, I suspect doing things through configuration/MDM profiles is going to become more and more common on desktop like it has on mobile.
I mean, “many” people use SaaS apps which utilize MDM on end user devices, but many parents I know who are in tech roll their own to filter the net for their kids devices and (to a much lesser extent) monitor them proactively.
The vast majority of these are going to turn into AI bots shortly if they aren’t going strong already. The human (slave) in the loop will be there for big fish or to finish the job.
Honestly the only thing that's going to change this is criminal liability for safety related software bugs. Otherwise, it's just business as usual and the business for the last 15 years has been cutting QA and asking developers to do testing themselves, which is literally impossible for a lot of software due to lack of proper staging environments and large permutations of configurations.
I think the nature of capitalism will make this impossible. The capital owning class will not allow criminal action for this and will also fight any common-sense regulations. If the working class gets that regulation in via the democratic process, that's fine, but its unlikely especially since it hasn't happened yet since we've gone digital on near everything starting from the 70s and 80s.
The working class lately seems more focused on 'culture war' issues and not economic or material or consumer or worker's rights issues anyway, so we're probably as far from any kind of regulation reform in software as possible. I remember a couple decades ago FOSS as an ideal seemed stronger and you had people like Lessig pushing hard for IP reform and Swartz and others for 'information must be free' honest-to-goodness mainstream movements and all of that seems to have went nowhere and is somewhat to very unpopular today. When was the last time you saw a populist movement towards liberal tech reform like this? Outside of some edge cases like medicine or power generation, the regulations here are purposely kept weak because that's what the wealthy desire.
Maybe our kids or grandkids will have this after the pendulum swings back, shrug.
Aviation relators just allowed boeing to self certificate again. Avition has a lot of historical regulations and can work through sheer inertia for years.
But the whole point is, regulator wont have teeth. They have teeth when politicians back them. And as of now, politicians back billionaires and deregulation. Wall street hates regulators, billionaires hate regulators and sizable part of population prefers people dying if it means they cam hurt libs and ennemies.
The AI subtitles are delivered by the original company (Cygames in this case) and CR used them without proofreading. This happened to a few other animes in the past in Germany.
For its own translations in Germany, CR uses freelancers which are VERY GOOD at their job, do not confuse them with the US Crunchyroll which consists mostly of the infamous Funimation staff.
youre implying that Stage Manager is Java. I dont think thats true though?
Isnt it only the _design_ of stage manager somewhat resembles some design choices by project looking glass?
this design has also been adopted by the other OS's like windows+tab has previously (in win7 days) created a similar looking view - though it no longer looks like it nowadays.
> this design has also been adopted by the other OS's like windows+tab has previously (in win7 days) created a similar looking view - though it no longer looks like it nowadays.
Looking Glass-like switchers are still available in Plasma
The Project Looking Glass UI != The Project Looking Glass
They are talking about the UI which could have inspired Stage Manager. Apple also had the purple window button before Project Looking Glass so there is that.
Apple itself supports using an old iPhone as a camera for Apple TV Facetime and karaoke use, so while this is a risk, it doesn't seem to be something the company is concerned about.
I'm sure whoever pitched this 'dedicated' feature in Cupertino had to make sure to state that customers would purchase a new iPhone for this role rather than... shudder reuse an old device. As we all know, Apple has a deep and abiding desire that the vast majority of used iPhones be shredded[1].
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