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Locking down OSX would be an epic technical and social battle. I can't think of any reason they would go to war with their power users just to do that, especial
by extension 15y ago
Locking down OSX would be an epic technical and social battle. I can't think of any reason they would go to war with their power users just to do that, especially since they already have a curated platform. They probably just want to give novice users a safe, curated experience by default.
- kennywinker 15y agoI can absolutely see them doing this... and SOON. Give the MAS ecosystem a year, two at most, to mature. There WILL be a switch somewhere, in the system prefs... a defaults write command... why? Because of Adobe, ProTools, Microsoft, and to a lesser extent stuff like homebrew and macports.
- ugh 15y agoIf there is a switch then there’s no problem. There would be no social battle. (Some people would be annoyed but that’s about it.) I can absolutely see Apple adding such a switch and activating it by default. It wouldn’t be a big deal. (Well, I think Apple technically already added that switch. As far as I know Parental Controls can be set up in a way to only allow apps from the App Store.)