[deno]

How would you do it if this was the goal? First you introduce TPM to every device under the sun until it’s everywhere, then you just have to flip a switch. You write Patriot Act then stash in the drawer until it’s time...

> you can happily sideload apps.

This is extremely weak argument when the other major platform does not let you do that, right? Sideloading could go away at any moment just like that. That’s my point. There’s nothing technical stopping it.

> People accept this with consoles because a console is a device exclusively for consuming media, and all developers apply for a devkit.

Already Windows has: Smart screen (which requires code signing) and app store. Locking down the OS and Apps is hardly unprecedented. Both Windows and MacOS now have developer modes which is a software devkit equivalent.

> Without a mass exodus to Linux?

That’s why you wait until mass adoption (win11) only then start boiling the frog.

Look, I acknowledge this is slippery slope argument. But the slope is very slippery. Something is clearly going on.