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How deep you are willing to go with conspiracy theories ... If one was planning to kill off all non-approved software on an OS, what would you do first? Remov

by zmmmmm 7y ago

How deep you are willing to go with conspiracy theories ... If one was planning to kill off all non-approved software on an OS, what would you do first? Remove all the runtimes that can execute unapproved software of course. Then you are free to impose signing as a requirement for applications and a mandatory app store, and reap the 30% rent tax forever more. Is Apple doing that? Of course, we can't tell. There are lots of good reasons to do this that aren't evil. The best evil plans are indistinguishable from good plans but just happen to have evil outcomes that are in your interest.

saagarjha 7y ago
It is trivial to package a scripting runtime with an App Store application; so trivial, in fact, that a number of apps for iOS do this already.
- zmmmmm 7y ago
  That doesn't really contradict anything above. It still remains true that if they were planning on removing ability to run unapproved applications from OSX, the first step would be to take out the ability to do that which is installed by default. Restricting what App Store applications can do would come later (and be controlled by policy rather than technical limitations).