> which have a very preferable decision to sandbox individual applications, instead of running them with full user permissions
It's great that they took security into account during the design phase. I wish they had also taken into account user empowerment. They sandboxed all the apps and in so doing made interoperation, plugins, patches, mods, etc basically impossible. Now the most widely-used form of personal computer is more like a portal to digital services than it is a computing platform. It's sad to see, and I refuse to believe that it's one-or-the-other when it comes to security vs power.
It's great that they took security into account during the design phase. I wish they had also taken into account user empowerment. They sandboxed all the apps and in so doing made interoperation, plugins, patches, mods, etc basically impossible. Now the most widely-used form of personal computer is more like a portal to digital services than it is a computing platform. It's sad to see, and I refuse to believe that it's one-or-the-other when it comes to security vs power.