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> If Apple and Microsoft could go back in time and change macOS and Windows to be like iOS where everything has to be approved and signed by Apple they almost c
by GeekyBear 3y ago
> If Apple and Microsoft could go back in time and change macOS and Windows to be like iOS where everything has to be approved and signed by Apple they almost certainly would.
What was Windows RT if not an attempt to move Windows over to a walled garden model?
- PaulHoule 3y agoThe thing is that people run Windows because they want to run Windows apps. That is, Windows is an important OS not because it is such a great OS in itself but because it has a great selection of software. Same is true for Linux or any other mainstream OS.
- GeekyBear 3y agoSure, but the thing is that Microsoft has taken multiple swings at "Windows that can only get apps from the Microsoft Store". Windows S was another attempt.
- saurik 3y ago(Your comment reads to me as having a tone of disagreement, yet you seem to just be providing further evidence of the point: we are confident that this is the case as Microsoft is actively trying -- if failing due to some of the other things you didn't bother to quote about existing expectations -- to gain this kind of control.)