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gertieg
Sophomore
7 years ago

Apple app to monitor usage

Hi.  Is there an app similar to glasswire for apple products? 

Data Management
  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    7 years ago

    True. But, Apples have traditionally been used by more in the line of artistic and linguistic development (think, 'hippies'), not as much business-related nor technological development. This, despite being well-designed and extremely user-focused for what was available. It had it's niche.

     

    I tried doing development on a Mac II in the late 80's/early 90's. Any bad code immediately crashed the entire system, requiring a specially affixed reboot button. It wasn't my idea of fun, but it would give you an idea of why the software had to be critically well-designed.

     

    They also used to be very 'closed' in as far as what applications they would allow to be run on them with very few 3rd party vendors. This only changed (slightly) when they became FreeBSD-based with a Cocoa interface and a Darwin kernel on Intel processors (vice in-house on Motorola) and there became more of a variety of vendors able to develop on them.

     

    Today you're able to cross-pollenate most command-line Linux-based apps (in fact I go back and forth in the user terminal sometimes, just like it's Fedora), as well as some with an X or early Gnome Toolkit interface.

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    MarkJFine
    Professor
    7 years ago

    Not sure there's anything reliable, though I've not tried to test anything Linux-based, which might work (might need X-Quartz and some external gtk libraries for any gui).

     

    Other than that, I've really considered writing one. Maybe when the weather gets colder... don't want to get stuck inside debugging things. :)

    • gertieg's avatar
      gertieg
      Sophomore
      7 years ago

      thanks for the quick reply. It is so strange...it's not like apple is new to the computing world......

      • MarkJFine's avatar
        MarkJFine
        Professor
        7 years ago

        True. But, Apples have traditionally been used by more in the line of artistic and linguistic development (think, 'hippies'), not as much business-related nor technological development. This, despite being well-designed and extremely user-focused for what was available. It had it's niche.

         

        I tried doing development on a Mac II in the late 80's/early 90's. Any bad code immediately crashed the entire system, requiring a specially affixed reboot button. It wasn't my idea of fun, but it would give you an idea of why the software had to be critically well-designed.

         

        They also used to be very 'closed' in as far as what applications they would allow to be run on them with very few 3rd party vendors. This only changed (slightly) when they became FreeBSD-based with a Cocoa interface and a Darwin kernel on Intel processors (vice in-house on Motorola) and there became more of a variety of vendors able to develop on them.

         

        Today you're able to cross-pollenate most command-line Linux-based apps (in fact I go back and forth in the user terminal sometimes, just like it's Fedora), as well as some with an X or early Gnome Toolkit interface.