The venerable Mac way of binding a document to an application is the creator code, a four-letter (actually integer) value, unique to an application, attached as metadata to a document. Now, in Snow Leopard, users and developers are complaining that the Unix way is being allowed to run roughshod over the Mac way. Since the very first day of the very first version of Mac OS X, there has been an uneasy detente between the Unix way of binding documents to applications and the former Mac way, inherited from the early days of the Mac OS.
When you double-click a document in the Finder, how does the system decide what application should open it? The relationship between a document and its owning application is called a preferred application binding. Apple lawsuit decided, Internet privacy limitations, combine Mac speakers smart displays, iOS 12.5.5 and Catalina security update, iPhone 13 problem with Apple Watch unlocking
