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Mac users aren’t beholden to the App Store the way iOS users are. There’s some things people get from there but the bulk of useful third party Mac software is d

Mac users aren’t beholden to the App Store the way iOS users are. There’s some things people get from there but the bulk of useful third party Mac software is distributed outside the App Store.

Rinzler89 2y ago
> the bulk of useful third party Mac software is distributed outside the App Store A mistake Apple made sure to not allow to happen again on their other platforms.
- transpute 2y ago
  s/mistake/precedent/ Macs pre-date app stores.
  - cassianoleal 2y ago
    So do iPhones.
  - jwells89 2y ago
    Apple also sees Macs as being in their own category amongst their devices, which is why AS Macs had OS agnostic multi boot capabilities added despite being descended from iPads architecturally.
- Ringz 2y ago
  Until the European Union becomes aware of this.