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What restrictions are you referring to for the Mac ecosystem ?

• jacknews 6y ago
  Not yet for mac, but appstore for iphone. I'm sure it's coming for M1 macs too.
  • gumby 6y ago
    Why are people so sure? The Mac is a different sort of device with a different use case and people who use it don't have the same expectations about it that they, and others, have about phones.
    • eyelidlessness 6y ago
      It’s not likely in the near term that Apple will lock down Mac software to the extent they do on iOS. But they’ve already taken many steps—over several macOS iterations—to either lock it down more than it had been, or to make overriding default restrictions difficult (SIP) or non-obvious (right click -> open to bypass gatekeeper). It’s unlikely they could take it drastically further without alienating a lot of developers, or without providing some kind of blessed escape hatch (e.g. you can run arbitrary software if you have a developer license; even that would alienate anyone developing software for non-Apple targets like web/server).
• tinus_hn 6y ago
  Apple has stated they will not support running alternative operating systems on Macs with Apple Silicon.