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This is categorically not true. 1) You can run every Mac app sold by a third party store that's designed to run on your Mac. 2) Anyone can make a Mac app store
by Terretta 3y ago
This is categorically not true. 1) You can run every Mac app sold by a third party store that's designed to run on your Mac. 2) Anyone can make a Mac app store.
The only apps Apple blocks from arbitrary sources are known malware. Even that can be turned off if you're either a masochist or a malware researcher.
PS. See also the wonderful SetApp store: https://setapp.com/ https://setapp.com/
Many apps in Apple's app store are alternatively available through SetApp. For anything in SetApp, I get it there.
- theturtletalks 3y agoNice straw man there. I wasn’t talking about the Mac App Store which is not even the target of anti-trust investigations. Macs allow you to install apps from anywhere. It’s the iOS App Store that doesn’t allow apps to be app marketplaces within. Setapp is a subscription service, not an app marketplace.
- Terretta 3y agoYou were talking Mac. > Setapp is a subscription service, not an app marketplace That's a really weird way to draw that line. I go there, goods are marketed to me, I pay money to use them. That's the definition of a market and the site and its desktop app are a marketplace. Unless you're arguing that if Apple finished transitioning the iOS app marketplace to purely subscription, it's no longer a marketplace. That would be a really unusual stance.
- cowsandmilk 3y agoIt’s not a straw man. You’re original comment was explicitly replying to a comment about the Mac, not iOS…
- stetrain 3y agoThe original comment, and my reply, are both about the Mac explicitly. I also specifically said that for iPhone and iPad that they were correct, that Apple's app store is the only way to get apps.