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by prodigal_erik 5595 days ago
This isn't a change. They've been doing everything they can to reduce tinkerers to consumers ever since the first Mac (with no retail boards, no expansion slots, and a dealer-only case opening tool). Now they assert a degree of control that not even Microsoft at their most ruthless would have dared. It astonishes me that developers were so blasé about this threat (at least the ones whose businesses weren't blown up by capricious last-minute rejections) until they actually saw a price tag on it.