[Wowfunhappy]

Apple is incentivized to push you towards their services—to make installing from the App Store easier than sideloading, and to make first party services more useful than third party services. Those are not my interests.

I say this not to ascribe malicious intent—I do not think Apple implemented OCSP to push people towards the App Store. But incentives are funny things, and can cause people and organizations to rationalize all sorts of decisions, and conveniently ignore some side effects and not others.

[jasonv]

I live in a world where those incentives have created a platform where I can buy decent hardware to run the kinds of applications that aren’t available on the preferred platforms. Want a laptop that can last all day, edit 4K, and be operated as an appliance, not a passion project? You’ve got Windows and Apple. I have run Linux forever, from day one, and while it can run the services we need for the whole internet, it’s not desktop viable in the ways Windows and Linux are.

In this argument, I’m not sure that level of product development can be dismissed. I wish Apple had implemented this better, I just bought a Windows machine so I wasn’t dependent on one platform, I’m trying to move towards Linux again (to be aligned with my own values), but the engineering this community wants, and the readiness of the platform & product we can buy any day of the week at Best Buy ... doesn’t exist.

So I, personally incentivized to give Apple a bit of a pass on this one, and hope they iterate this solution in the right direction, and definitely hope they don’t turn the Mac App Store into the iOS App Store.