[beeflet]

The strategy is to funnel most users onto an ipad-like platform at most where they have basic productivity apps like word or excel but no ability to run general purpose programs.

Meanwhile you have a minimal set of developers with the ability to run arbitrary programs, and you can go from there with surveillance on MacOS like having every executable tagged with the developer's ID.

The greater the distance between the developer and the user, the more you can charge people to use programs instead of just copying them. But you can go much further under the guise of "quality control".

[m-s-y]

> The strategy is to funnel most users onto an ipad-like platform at most where they have basic productivity apps like word or excel but no ability to run general purpose programs.

And you know this how?

This reads like every macOS fan’s worst nightmare, but there’s zero actual evidence that Apple is going in this direction.

Please share sources if you disagree.

[robotresearcher]

> The strategy is to funnel most users onto an ipad-like platform

They make the best selling laptop in the world, and other most-popular-in-class laptops. If their strategy is to have people not use laptops, they are going about it funny.

[ddingus]

If so, they are executing it badly.

As for every executable being tagged, that is not required. People can build binaries with open tools and other people can run them.

A hash gets created for Apple to play same or different with binaries found to be nefarious somehow. Seems like a reasonable proposition.