

Apple's "other" operating system gets a major update

  • Full iCloud integration
  • Messages -- another iOS transplant
  • Dictation


Sources: The Verge, Engadget

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RE: Just $20
By TakinYourPoints on 7/26/2012 2:30:22 AM , Rating: 2
Gatekeeper is more like Windows UAC (User Account Control). By default it only allows apps from Apples store and identified developers. I can see this causing lots of issues with people wondering why they cant install some things now.

Kind of funny really, in those annoying ads Apple used to take the p**s out of Vista for UAC and its security dialogue boxes popping up, and now Apple have gone and done the same sort of thing.

Incorrect, you have it backwards. UAC took after the *nix style of temporary elevation of user rights to admin, which OS X has obviously been doing since its beginning.

Gatekeeper is simply a whitelist of developers and applications that are known to not be or distributing malware. Any developer can get on this whitelist, even without being on the App Store.

This is just a way to verify that an application isn't malware, and obviously if it is then it would be removed. Users have an option to install anything they choose, obviously, in which case they go through the same admin approval process they did before.

It isn't a walled garden, and it isn't like anything Windows is implementing at the moment.

