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Re: QTR and Mac OS X El Capitan
2015-10-02 by ssimoncini@...
Apple plays the role of the big brother for us all. They want you to use their system, but at the same time they want you to avoid using it the way you want, and especially, using stuff they don't make money on.
For example, if you have an iphone or Ipad, and you turn off IMessage and Facetime and Icloud, anytime you upgrade the IOs, they automatically turn themselves on no matter what. Or, if you just want to copy your media files from the Iphone, you just HAVE to use ITunes. I was an enthuastic apple user, but their way to mess with my user experience has pissed me off long ago.
As long as you download "certified" apps from the appstore, you're free to go. Everytime you try to install something different from an independent developer, they try to scare you saying "hey, we don't take responsibility for what you're doing".. and the scary message appears.
The fact is, they do not take responsibility for anything, period. Does anyone really think they "certify" the hundreds of thousands of apps available on the app store? They have automated censorship filters, maybe, avoiding offensive topics to be included in the appstore, but it's very unrealistic that they do any testing at all. they just want to push the user to buy apps from the store, that's all. Most users just comply, not having either the expertise nor the time to experiment.
I am pretty sure that should 2.7.6 will work on El Capitan if does work on Yosemite, and in case it does not, there's very little chance that the system will be affected.
A different approach must come to mind if one installs pirated apps, widely available on the net. In that case, the user opens his/her system to an unknown individual who has been tampering with the original code and the risk of letting someone inject malicious code into your system is quite high, but I guess this is quite obvious to anyone, and in this case the expertise that is necessary to understand whether malicious code is present is not commonly present in the general public as it requires hackers' skills and a thourough understanding of the Unix core OSX is based on (Darwin).
QTR is just an independently developed application which works flawlessly in almost all cases and the integrations with the system is just great. I wish it could be developed to work as a RIP for colour applications as well, that'd be a real dream!.
Good printing to everyone!
S.