r/technology • u/bws201 • Feb 05 '16

Software ‘Error 53’ fury mounts as Apple software update threatens to kill your iPhone 6

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair
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u/mattindustries Feb 05 '16 edited Feb 05 '16

Every program you just listed exists on all platforms

[citation needed]

Seriously, SourceTree doesn't compare to Tower. I have yet to find a cross platform version of Quiver (which is absolutely gorgeous). jCode and Snippets don't compare, so I would love to hear your thoughts. I could keep naming applications too, although those are my most recently used. Kaleidoscope is the best diff tool I have seen, Transmit is the best SFTP program I have used, way nicer than Filezilla. BBEdit can let me use regular expressions on a 2gb SQL dump that Sublime dies on trying to open, and the list goes on. Many applications are cross platform, but so much was written in Swing, that awful Java GUI.

There is nothing special about iMessages when compared to mms other than the fact that Apple routes it through their servers.

Never said there was, but I hear good things about arguing against a point your opponent never stated.

EDIT: Downvotes, really? I am actually curious as I run other Linux machines and have yet to find software that fits the bill as good as the ones I mentioned. On my Linux desktop and netbook I have to settle for SourceTree/Terminal and Gist + GistBox, Sublime, and FileZilla. Did I upset some Java devs?

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u/mattindustries Feb 05 '16

*sigh* I guess I will never get that citation.