Two Takes View TECHi Stance

North Korea upgrades its national operating system to a Mac OS copy

TECHi's Author Louie Baur

Opposing Author Digitaltrends Read Source Article

Last Updated February 5, 2014 · 9:20 PM EST

Digitaltrends

Digitaltrends View all Digitaltrends Two Takes by TECHi Read the original story Published February 5, 2014

TECHi's Take

Louie Baur

Words 92
Estimated Read 1 min

The club of Mac OS X lovers has gained an unlikely member: North Korea. The country’s new operating system has been stylized to look like Apple’s software, leaked screenshots have revealed. Reports suggest that only a handful of North Koreans have access to the latest IT technologies. But when an American computer scientist who lectured at Pyongyang University took a stroll to an official retailer in the capital to get himself a copy of the country’s OS, he noticed it had a striking similarity to Apple’s Mac OS.

Digitaltrends

Words 146
Estimated Read 1 min

Read Article

When we wrote this tounge-in-cheek piece about what North Korea could do to look more technologically advanced than it is, we weren’t seriously expecting the reclusive totalitarian state to make some ridiculous moves to upgrade – it was just a joke. However, given North Korea’s tech track record, which includes the use of Windows XP at one of its rocket control facilities, as well as its status as a nearly failed state, perhaps we should’ve seen this coming. The newest version of North Korea’s Red Star operating system looks a heck of a lot like Mac OS X. But it’s not. Once again, we shouldn’t be surprised by this copycat maneuver; the previous version of the OS looked quite a bit like Windows 7. Take a look at a screenshot of the previous Red Star release below to see what we mean.

Source

NOTE: TECHi Two-Takes are the stories we have chosen from the web along with a little bit of our opinion in a paragraph. Please check the original story in the Source Button below.

Balanced Perspective

TECHi weighs both sides before reaching a conclusion.

TECHi’s editorial take above outlines the reasoning that supports this position.

More Two Takes from Digitaltrends

This app let’s you buy the food that restaurants want to throw away

Brian

Aug 11, 2016

Just because it's not fresh doesn't mean it's not edible. For people willing to eat food that's old, but not…

Check out the OnePlus smartwatch that will never exist

Rocco

Jun 30, 2016

In the two years since OnePlus exploded onto the smartphone scene with the OnePlus One, rumors that the company is working…

Apple’s new patent could put an end to autocorrect mistakes

Jesseb

Apr 30, 2016

Autocorrect is incredibly useful when it works, but when it doesn't work, it can cause problems that are always annoying, often…

Africa’s first billion-dollar company is an e-commerce network

Alfie

Apr 5, 2016

With more than a billion people and some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, Africa is on its way to becoming…