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> Apple has already demonstrated several times over that the professional market isn't really of much interest to them anymore. There is one group of professio
by guygurari 15y ago
> Apple has already demonstrated several times over that the professional market isn't really of much interest to them anymore.
There is one group of professionals Apple cannot do without: developers. One of the main appeals of both iOS and the Mac is the availability of exclusive, high-quality apps. I expect that limiting all app distribution to the Mac App Store will send developers running to other platforms. A platform without developers is an empty shell, and Apple knows this.
- dpark 15y ago>I expect that limiting all app distribution to the Mac App Store will send developers running to other platforms. Just like it did for iOS?
- recoiledsnake 15y agoThere wasn't a wide variety and large number of native software titles written for iOS before the App Store.
- dpark 15y agoThere won't be a wide variety and large number of native software titles written for OSX, either, if Apple requires App Store distribution.
- guygurari 15y agoI have different expectations from my iOS device and from my Mac. My main work machine must give me the freedom to install whatever I want, since limiting this freedom would be crippling. But I don't require this of my phone, since I don't see the added benefit. This is a practical point of view, and I bet it is common among developers. Perhaps in the future most development will take place in SSH sessions on a remote machine, and then closing down the Mac will not longer be a problem, but I don't see how that would work today.