Different market, different historical reasons, and typically a much smaller user base for MacOS than the iPhone. Also, “sideloaded” apps on MacOS are most cer

Different market, different historical reasons, and typically a much smaller user base for MacOS than the iPhone. Also, “sideloaded” apps on MacOS are most certainly suspect in Apple’s eyes, so much so they put opt-in requirements around them. While I do see that as an argument for allowing iPhone sideloading with similar opt-in requirements, you can at least understand the market is considerably different for iPhone users than for Mac users, even if there is an overlap between the two. iPhones also, from a support perspective, are an order of magnitude (or close to it) greater than that of MacOS. Seems reasonable to me for them to keep their appliance locked down in this way.