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I hope this uproar doesn't die down before WWDC because it's going to suck if Apple announces all the ARM Mac software must go through their app store.
by benologist 6y ago
I hope this uproar doesn't die down before WWDC because it's going to suck if Apple announces all the ARM Mac software must go through their app store.
- JohnTHaller 6y agoThey will once they can get away with it. They've been inching closer to this over the years with the MacOS GateKeeper settings and defaults.
- wool_gather 6y agoNah. [Quoting myself][0]: > They can't do this unless they are okay with never selling machines again to anyone who needs to write code. There's no feasible way for all programming tools to be distributed through MAS. IPython isn't going to suddenly go through the marathon of crap you need to get into the store. > If absolutely nothing else, native developers: you can't have more than one version of a MAS app installed. Nearly every iOS developer I know has at least two versions of Xcode at any given time. [0]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721310