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> Doesn't campaigning for depriving users of the choice to use the App Store make you "feel like a jackass!?" What "CHOICE" are you blabbering about? Can you i
by webmobdev 6y ago
> Doesn't campaigning for depriving users of the choice to use the App Store make you "feel like a jackass!?"
What "CHOICE" are you blabbering about? Can you install an app on the ios independently without resorting to risky jailbreaking on your iDevice?
With similar closed Apple ARM processors (like in the iDevices) now on the Mac platform too, Apple is moving towards denying us CHOICE on the macOS platform too. (And for all those who want to reply that this is not going to happen, Apple is boiling the frog slowly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog ... Apart from the closed Apple ARM processors, the latest version of the macOS already CRIPPLES firewalls to allow any Apple authorised application to bypass the firewalls to spy better on its users, and to exert more control over the device (worst case e.g. killswitch).
- Razengan 6y ago> Apple is moving towards denying us CHOICE on the macOS platform too. (And for all those who want to reply that this is not going to happen, Apple is boiling the frog slowly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
- webmobdev 6y agoYou can be an Apple fanboi, but you have to be real naive one to believe that Apple doesn't want to increase their billion dollar+ profit margins through the app store by making the macOS a closed platform like the ios too. (And yes, the app store can be successful only in a closed platform where Apple dictates how - and what - software you can install on it.)