> If you buy a mac and an iOS app, i don't see any reason why you couldn't try to have the two work together if that's technically possible. Apple may add addit

> If you buy a mac and an iOS app, i don't see any reason why you couldn't try to have the two work together if that's technically possible. Apple may add additional code to prevent that, and then you should be allowed to remove it. From the point of view of Apple I can see at least three reasons why they'd want to prevent arbitrary iOS apps from running on macOS. - The developer of the iOS app may not want people to use the iOS version on macOS, because they already have a version of the software made for macOS that they want people to buy instead. - Software made for iOS does not necessarily work all that well on macOS. Both because of the difference between touch screen and mouse paradigms, and because of iOS apps being made to run in a more constrained environment. - Beyond the above point being harmful both to end-users and to Apple, it's also harmful to the developers of the app because they have to deal with support requests and negative reviews from people running the software in a way it was not designed to be run. Similar to the way that it was with Linux users for this one game developer: "Game dev: Linux users were only 0.1% of sales but 20% of crashes and tickets", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205 And what I am saying is, if you want the freedom, why invest into proprietary software in the first place? Or if you want the proprietary software, why insist on being able to do whatever you want with it? And as for ownership, when you license proprietary software you are almost never being sold ownership of the software. You are paying for a license to use it. And if you think that this is bad, again, open source is much better in line with your desires.