[rched]

Your fears seem to come down to the idea that Apple will eventually try to force apps to go through the mac app store. I can understand why people would feel that way seeing what they have done on their mobile platforms but I don't actually think there is any evidence to suggest they want to do that on the mac.

I am not at all convinced Apple wants to go that route so the future of the mac doesn't look scary to me it looks pretty great.

[marcus_holmes]

I have no idea why you think this, when Apple are clearly clamping down on what software gets on "their" machines.

They have to tread carefully because anti-trust, and they'll make all the relevant noises, but I think it's clear that the end-goal is only allowing app store apps to be installed.

But tbh the same is true of Windows. They're further away, because history, but they've already played with this once and will do so again.

[chongli]

Apple only has about 10% marketshare with macOS. There is no judge in the US that would rule against them in an anti-trust case over that. It's another story with iOS but that's not what we're talking about here.

Apple has no reason to turn the Mac into a total walled garden. They already have that in the iPad. Walling off macOS would mean getting rid of the Terminal and all of the other developer tools. For what? They would be cutting off their nose to spite their face.

[dwaite]

They really don't have motivation to lock down the Mac in that way.

Instead, they'll push iPad to be usable as a laptop alternative for more people.

[1over137]

>I don't actually think there is any evidence to suggest they want to do that on the mac

Gatekeeper, requiring Developer ID, deprecating kexts, T2 chip, deprecation of the inclusion of Tk/python/PHP. We are slowly boiling frogs here. It's being squeezed into the direction of iOS.