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Look at iOS, you need to pay for a developer account and the signed applications can't be distributed (otherwise they'll revoke your account) and have short-liv
by the8472 6y ago
Look at iOS, you need to pay for a developer account and the signed applications can't be distributed (otherwise they'll revoke your account) and have short-lived certs.
- brundolf 6y agoYou're not listening: you don't make software on iOS.
- the8472 6y agoThose people already pay for that account and thus could sign whatever they need to work. For them it wouldn't change a thing. It's just everyone else.
- jentist_retol 6y agoI have a feeling that this is going to change in the next year or two.
- brundolf 6y agoIt could. But still, someone has to develop iOS itself. And someone has to write the server back-ends that all those apps depend on. And the cloud infrastructure that those back-ends run within. By definition there will always be something out there that can't be developed on a locked-down platform. So there will always be an open platform, even if Apple decided one day (again, unlikely I think) to recuse themselves from that market.
- saagarjha 6y agoApple always has the option of fusing their Macs and selling blown ones externally, and then writing their OS to turn off parts of the OS that they use but think you don't need. They haven't done that, but it is always possible that they could.
- totetsu 6y agoBut the people who make iOS work for apple, can't they use an in house proprietary tool set, to develop it?
- cwhiz 6y agoSure they could. They could basically fork macOS and maintain an entirely separate version just for developing iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and macOS. I don't know why in the world they would do that. This whole "issue" is just Apple trying to get people to put their software in the Mac App Store. Maybe a day will come where Apple try and lock down macOS to the level that they have locked down iOS... but I just don't see it happening. Apple will always need developers to develop software for Apple products. Maybe they will drop a nuclear bomb on themselves. Anything is theoretically possible.
- madeofpalk 6y agoIIRC you don’t need to pay for an Apple dev membership to self-sign and run the app on your own device. They made this change a few years ago I believe.