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Perhaps it's a subtle nudge towards "okay we're making macOS just as locked down as iOS from now on... welcome to our new walled garden."
by DavideNL 5y ago
Perhaps it's a subtle nudge towards "okay we're making macOS just as locked down as iOS from now on... welcome to our new walled garden."
- headmelted 5y agoI quite like were macOS is on this topic philosophically with XProtect and Gatekeeper. I don't think Craig is being necessarily fair to macOS in his framing, as they've gone much further than Windows has and Linux realistically can, but I get that he's trying to win the debate in the eyes of the court. It's a great (if not perfect) way to provide some protection over software from outside the App Store, but he's right in suggesting that it just wouldn't scale to the sheer amount of mobile software people would install on iOS because a shady ad banner told them to. (Basing this on Linux being free and as a result not coming with a monitoring team for notarisation of software in the wild).
- 3GuardLineups 5y agoplease god no. Imagine having to download everything through the app store. Infantilizing fucks
- snowwrestler 5y agoPeople have been trying to read these tea leaves for almost 15 years now and it still hasn’t happened. MacOS and iOS are complementary and expand Apple’s market by addressing different segments. If MacOS worked exactly like iOS, Apple would lose computer customers to Windows or Linux. Also, a reminder that Apple actually ships 5 different operating systems to deliver their segmentation strategy: MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS.
- mcphage 5y agoGatekeeper has gotten much more aggressive than when it first released. So maybe they're stopping where they are, but I don't think that's the only possibility.
- threatofrain 5y agoIt needs to happen if the health app comes to MacOS.