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Greed sure, but it's also control. Apple has always been fanatical about controlling what the user, seller, repair shops, retail, etc can do with their products
by calvano915 6y ago
Greed sure, but it's also control. Apple has always been fanatical about controlling what the user, seller, repair shops, retail, etc can do with their products. Among other reasons, its one of the top reasons I'll never use Apple computers. I want complete control of my devices, and the ability to break my machines while pushing boundaries. Apple would rather have me locked in to their 30% fee App Store cash cow with apps that require their approval to exist.
- musicale 6y agoI have heard that it might be possible to hack your Mac laptop (using a setting in System Preferences>Security&Privacy>General) to allow it to run code on that isn't from Apple's App Store.
- jononor 6y agoWhere is that setting on the iPhone and iPad?
- EricE 6y agoThere isn't one because the iPhone/iPad is a closed ecosystem, whereas macOS is not. There are pro's and con's to both models; choose the one that works best for you. Even if it's not Apple :)
- simonh 6y agoThere is no lock preventing you installing non-Apple executable. Theres a warning and such but I install apps from third parties all the time. There are even several package managers, macports and homebrew, that will install userland unix binaries for you.