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Paul Graham — renowned Lisp programmer, essayist,godfather of using Bayesian-ish statistical analysis toidentify spam, and, now, co-founder of a venture firm for early-stagestartups — earlier this week published a piece titled 'Returnof the Mac', which starts:

All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs. Myfriend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently boughtthemselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers andgrandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s.They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get.

The reason, of course, is OS X. Powerbooks are beautifully designedand run FreeBSD. What more do you need to know?

And so I suppose we can assume Graham doesn't know Tim Bray — searchexpert, XML co-creator and hacker, 'Director of Web Technologies' at Sun, and essayist/weblogger — who, earlier thisweek, claimed he was considering switching away from the Mac, or, ashe put it, unswitching.

All the Hackers

On the surface, Graham's piece seems like a nice pat on the back tothe Mac platform. But there's an implication in his piece that theworld's most prodigiously talented programmers are only now switching(or switching back) to the Mac, when in fact some of them have beenhere all along. GUI programming is hard, and for GUI programmers, theMac has always been, in Brent Simmons's words, 'The Show'.

I.e. the idea that by the mid-'90s the Mac user base had been whittleddown to 'graphic designers and grandmas' is demonstrably false —someone must have been writing the software the designers and grandmaswere using, no? — but I don't think it's worth pressing the point,because I suspect it wasn't really what Graham meant to imply. And themain thrust of his point is true: there is a certain class of hackers— your prototypical Unix nerds — who not only weren't using Macs adecade ago, but whose antipathy toward Macs was downright hostile. Andit is remarkable that these hackers are now among Mac OS X's strongestadherents.

It's another sign of Mac OS X's dual nature: from the perspective ofyour typical user (and particularly long-time Mac users), it is theMac OS with a modern Unix architecture encapsulated under the hood;from the perspective of the hackers Graham writes of, it is Unix witha vastly superior GUI.

A year ago I wrote 'Ronco Spray-On Usability' in response toEric S. Raymond's call-to-arms for better usability in open sourcedesktop user-interface design. Addressing this issue of Mac OS X usersimmigrating from Unix-land, I wrote:

[…] Most of the talented developers still using desktop Linux areeither cheapskates or free-software political zealots.

This isn't to say desktop Linux isn't growing in use. Bedroom horrors mac os. It is, andwill continue to. But it's growing at the bottom end of the market— cheap $400 computers from Wal-Mart. That's a market wheresoftware usability is not a key feature.

My crack about 'cheapskates and free-software political zealots' beingthe only developers left using open source desktop systems struck anerve in the Slashdot crowd, prompting me to address it in afollow-up:

I heard from Linux users who claim to be neither cheapskates norpolitical zealots, but who have no intention of switching to MacOS X, under any circumstances, ever. The reasons vary, butcommon ones include:

• Mac OS X does not have an option for 'focus follows mouse'.
• Mac OS X does not allow you to use a different window manager.
• You can't change the way Mac OS X looks without resortingto unsupported hacks.

But the particular reasons don't really matter. It all boilsdown to the fact that most aspects of Mac OS X are not designedto be configurable or replaceable; they are designed to beusable, and to fit in with the design of the rest of the system.

They're also designed to work specifically with Apple's ownhardware — which many of these 'I'm not a cheapskate but Idon't want to pay for Apple hardware' types refuse to recognizeas a huge usability advantage for Mac OS X.

I didn't say 'Unix nerds' are switching to Mac OS X in droves; Isaid 'Unix nerds who care about usability'. People who want aUnix system that just works, so they can get on with their realwork — those are the ones who are switching. As opposed to Unixnerds whose interest is the computer itself, and who want totinker with it at any and every level — i.e. Unix nerds who donot care about usability.

That was written a year ago, and I think the trend has onlyaccelerated since then. I think this is the point that Graham istrying to make. But as astute and insightful as Graham is, I think hemisstates the primary reason for the Mac's resurgent popularityamongst his hacker friends. Graham writes:

If you want to attract hackers to write software that will sellyour hardware, you have to make it something that they themselvesuse. It's not enough to make it 'open.' It has to be open and good.

And open and good is what Macs are again, finally. The interveningyears have created a situation that is, as far as I know, withoutprecedent: Apple is popular at the low end and the high end, butnot in the middle. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. Myfriends with PhDs in computer science have Mac laptops. And yetApple's overall market share is still small.

The problem hackers had with Mac OS 7-9 wasn't that it was bad — butthat it wasn't good for the tasks they cared about. And in a hacker'smindset, if a computer isn't good for his particular brand of hacking,that computer isn't good, period.

The core difference between Mac OS X and the old Mac OS isn't that itis flat-out better, but that it is good in (mostly) all the ways theold Mac OS was good,¹ and but isalso good in entirely different ways. It is the Mac and it is Unix,at the same time.

The appeal to hackers is obvious: as users, they get the Mac'ssuperior desktop apps (iTunes, iMovie, etc.); as programmers, they gettheir favorite development tools: Perl, Python, Ruby, Apache, MySQL,and all the way down the Unix tool chain.

The primary group of programmers who were attracted to the old Mac OSwere those who wanted to write Mac software: application software andother projects meant for use by regular Mac users. Mac OS X, on theother hand, is attractive to those same programmers, for the samereasons, and also attractive to all sorts of other programmers aswell — most especially to those writing software for the web.

And even for those utterly Unix-stained souls who don't care a whitabout the Mac side of Mac OS X, there are numerous reasons to preferMac OS X over Linux as a desktop OS. Not the least of which is thetight integration with Apple's hardware, especially beneficial if youwant a laptop.

In short, Mac OS X is a deeply appealing platform for a very largeshare of the overall hacker market. It's the intersection of almosteverything that's good about the old Mac OS and the open source Linuxdesktops.

If you want to attract hackers to write software that will sellyour hardware, you have to make it something that they themselvesuse. It's not enough to make it 'open.' It has to be open and good.

And open and good is what Macs are again, finally. The interveningyears have created a situation that is, as far as I know, withoutprecedent: Apple is popular at the low end and the high end, butnot in the middle. My seventy year old mother has a Mac laptop. Myfriends with PhDs in computer science have Mac laptops. And yetApple's overall market share is still small.

The problem hackers had with Mac OS 7-9 wasn't that it was bad — butthat it wasn't good for the tasks they cared about. And in a hacker'smindset, if a computer isn't good for his particular brand of hacking,that computer isn't good, period.

The core difference between Mac OS X and the old Mac OS isn't that itis flat-out better, but that it is good in (mostly) all the ways theold Mac OS was good,¹ and but isalso good in entirely different ways. It is the Mac and it is Unix,at the same time.

The appeal to hackers is obvious: as users, they get the Mac'ssuperior desktop apps (iTunes, iMovie, etc.); as programmers, they gettheir favorite development tools: Perl, Python, Ruby, Apache, MySQL,and all the way down the Unix tool chain.

The primary group of programmers who were attracted to the old Mac OSwere those who wanted to write Mac software: application software andother projects meant for use by regular Mac users. Mac OS X, on theother hand, is attractive to those same programmers, for the samereasons, and also attractive to all sorts of other programmers aswell — most especially to those writing software for the web.

And even for those utterly Unix-stained souls who don't care a whitabout the Mac side of Mac OS X, there are numerous reasons to preferMac OS X over Linux as a desktop OS. Not the least of which is thetight integration with Apple's hardware, especially beneficial if youwant a laptop.

In short, Mac OS X is a deeply appealing platform for a very largeshare of the overall hacker market. It's the intersection of almosteverything that's good about the old Mac OS and the open source Linuxdesktops.

Braying

Which deep appeal makes Tim Bray's 'unswitch' diatribe all the moreperplexing. There's no need to bother pointing out to Bray that aPowerBook running Mac OS X is the best way to run a Unix-style OS on alaptop — he wrote that argument himself three years ago, whenhe bought his first PowerBook:

But recently I've noticed that a lot of my grizzled contemporaries,and quite a few younger open-source luminaries, are starting to carryMacintoshes. The reasons seem to be:

• With the arrival of OS X, a Mac is actually a full-featuredUnix system.

• It has a well-thought-through, consistent, and ratherbeautiful user interface that requires neither sending moneyto Redmond nor editing Xt resource files nor knowing what a'termcap' is.

• It has really, really, REALLY fast suspend/resume.Open the laptop up and by the time your fingers are on thekeyboard it's ready for you to start typing. The amount oftime the entire human population spends sitting in front ofWindows boxes waiting for them to be ready to work is probablyin aggregate worth the GDP of a medium-sized country.

What's changed since then? Has something better come along? Apparentlythat's not it:

My big gripe with Apple, of course, is their cult of hermeticsecrecy. We at Sun and our esteemed competitors up in Redmond areengaged in a grand experiment: what happens when you dramaticallyincrease a company's transparency? Initial results are pretty goodfor both of us. Apple's approach is of course, exactly the opposite.

Oh, well, of course. Rather than picking a system based on itsquality or suitability for your needs, pick it based on the level of'secrecy' maintained by the company that makes it.

What secrets, I wonder, does Bray feel Apple would be better off notkeeping? Details of upcoming major updates to Mac OS X? Oh, wait, theydid reveal those, last June at WWDC, along with regular seeds of MacOS X 10.4 as it progressed through beta testing.

https://widgettorrent.mystrikingly.com/blog/hyngan-mac-os. As for Sun's grand experiment in transparency, I'm sure Apple isindeed quite interested in generating the same degree of buzz andpublicity around their product announcements as surround Sun's. Imean, could speculation regarding the announcements at the nextSolaris trade show be running any hotter?

Bray continues:

[Apple controls] the message, nothing that's not part of themessage can be said, nobody is allowed to say anything except forSteve, and they'll sue your ass if you step out of bounds. Are you still working so late? mac os.

Whom have they sued for merely 'stepping out of bounds'? Or is 'steppingout of bounds' the same thing as 'breaking the law'?

That court case is really irritating; the judge cleverly side-steppedthe issue of whether free-speech guarantees apply to bloggers byfinding on the basis that this wasn't about free speech, it was abouttrade secrets. Should Apple win, each and every player in thefinancial industry who's trying to do something sleazy orunscrupulous will be able to claim that their accounting practices ortransfer pricing or whatever are 'trade secrets' and litigateaggressively against anyone, journalist or otherwise, who tries toget at the truth. Enron's 'special-purpose entities'? Trade secrets.Worldcom's revenue-recognition policy? Trade secret. Write about itand you're in court.

Perhaps Bray wouldn't find Judge Kleinberg's ruling so irritating ifhe'd actually bother to read it. (I'm hosting a PDF copy here.)Kleinberg specifically addresses the exact scenarios raised by Bray.On p. 12 of the ruling (emphasis added):

At the hearing the Court specifically asked what public interest wasserved by publishing private, proprietary product information thatwas ostensibly stolen and turned over to those with no businessreason for getting it. Movants' response was to again reiterate theself-evident interest of the public in Apple, rather than justifyingwhy citizens have a right to know the private and secret informationof a business entity, be it Apple, H-P, a law firm, a newspaper,Coca-Cola, a restaurant, or anyone else. Unlike the whistleblower whodiscloses a health, safety, or welfare hazard affecting all, or thegovernment employee who reveals mismanagement or worse by our publicofficials, the movants are doing nothing more than feeding thepublic's insatiable desire for information.

Bray continues:

I don't know, maybe traditional message management will work forApple; arguably transparency matters less when you're selling KoolToys to Kool Kids is, as opposed to selling long-term infrastructurebets to businesspeople.

I wonder which company, Sun or Apple, is considered a better long-termbet to investors these days? If only we could see a graph comparingtheir stock prices over the last two years.

(I don't mean to disparage the quality of Sun's hardware or software,but I can't resist the stock-price pot-shot. It's just so weird to seea guy like Tim Bray — who generally comes across as being wise,temperate, and clever — resort to childish 'Kool Kids' name-calling.)

Bray then goes on to explain why he switched from Safari to Firefox —seemingly random SPODs, and griping about the fact that you're nevermore than one ⌘Q away from losing your entire browser session. Here,at least, Bray and I are on the same page. But as noted by Bray himselfin a follow-up, one can guard against accidentally quitting Safariand losing a bunch of open browser windows by changing the menu keyshortcut for the Quit menu item, using the 'Keyboard & Mouse' SystemPreferences panel.

But feeling the need to switch from Safari is a far cry from feelingthe need to switch from Mac OS X. Using Firefox doesn't make you lessof a Mac OS X user.

Bray also goes on to complain about his PowerBook's screen (which is abetter screen than the one in his first PowerBook three years ago, whichhe cited then as one of the best reasons to get a PowerBook)and performance (he wants a new laptop that's 'twice as fast').

Bray concludes:

On the other hand, maybe Apple will dial back the infofascism andfigure out how to ship a fast laptop with a good screen.

And I'll just point out that 'infofascism' seems like an awfullyloaded term considering the rather hollow charges Bray has levied.Perhaps there is a case to be made against Mac OS X, or againstPowerBooks, or against Apple Computer. But this certainly isn't it.

I was half-tempted to dredge up Bray's argument from last year thatApple should 'go open source' (Bray wants Apple to release thesource to apps like Mail, Safari, and the Finder) just to havesomething worth debating. At least with his 'go open source' argument,he, well, argues.

Here, though, all we're left with is that Bray thinks Apple is too'secretive' and so maybe he won't use their computers any more. Whichsecrets Apple shouldn't be keeping, or how they're any more secretivenow than they were three years ago when Bray first came on board,who knows?

1. With certain notable and specific user-interface-relatedexceptions, such as, say, the Finder. Exceptions notwithstanding,however, the Mac remains a platform where developers are committed toconsistent, intuitive user-interface design. ↩︎

Oppression (inuitive Feeling) Mac Os Catalina