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> The App Store has, by all accounts, been a runaway success Except on the only platform that doesn't enforce it as the sole app store, MacOS. Holy cow, can yo
by talldayo 2y ago
> The App Store has, by all accounts, been a runaway success
Except on the only platform that doesn't enforce it as the sole app store, MacOS. Holy cow, can you imagine trying to set up your Mac with only the App Store for installing software? How many people could do their day-to-day job, like that?
Extrapolating from MacOS it really feels the other way around. On iPadOS in particular it's become a running joke how hard Apple arbitrarily tries to stop you from using their tablet computer hardware like a laptop.
- wilsonnb3 2y ago> Holy cow, can you imagine trying to set up your Mac with only the App Store for installing software? How many people could do their day-to-day job, like that? Probably quite a lot, microsoft office is available in the app store and that plus safari is all a lot of people need.