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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Yosemite or how to make OSX look like iOS  :(
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:46:02 +0000 (UTC)
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FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> writes:

> I said that I don't find any use for it.  I'd get rid of 
> it permanently, if I could.

> Actually, it is indispensable... but only because the Finder
> wouldn't work without it, and for it's part in other background 
> processes.  Otherwise I WOULD kill it permanently.

Yes.  Way back when the dock could be killed, Apple's response
was to more tightly integrate it into the desktop, such that it
can no longer be (easily, anyway) croaked.

Billy Y..
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