3 ms·
> You will always be able to develop locally on your Mac, always be able to get to a shell, always be able to install third-party apps without going through the
by Lammy 5y ago
> You will always be able to develop locally on your Mac, always be able to get to a shell, always be able to install third-party apps without going through the App Store.
The infrastructure to grant/deny use of specific applications to individual users has existed in macOS for years if they wanted to use it that way. Their server just currently gives the same answer to all requests for the same signature.
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/25/macos-has-checked-app-signatures-online-for-over-2-years/ https://eclecticlight.co/2020/11/25/macos-has-checked-app-si...
How about launching those applications totally privately — no network requests at all?
Spoiler: `sudo spctl --master-disable`. Luckily we're still allowed root on ARM Macs for now :)
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoYes, I know. My argument is that they don't want to use it that way, not that they can't.
- Lammy 5y agoI don't think it's possible to know who wants what or who even contributes to such a decision today, much less who will in the future.
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoI can't definitively know, sure, but I can make guesses based on what I see, and what I see so far continues to match my model of how Apple thinks about Macs vs. iPads, even as Apple passes by obvious inflection points for changing things up if they wanted to (e.g., the shift to Apple Silicon, the macOS redesign in Big Sur). In the future, though, we run into the footnote in my original comment that I said I'm not willing to make any strongly-worded predictions about yet. I'm still not. :)