OS X Lion: 1984 Never Looked So Familiar

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3 pointschrisleydon5 comments

What now, Apple is a for-profit company? How dare they use their available means to increase their revenue! Outrageous.

I think you missed the point. The article is highlighting the increasing inevitability that OS X will become a closed system where you will only be able to install apps and add ons through the Mac App Store.

You're suggesting that Apple would turn off the means to run apps developers depend on to work? The same developers who create apps for this 'locked-down' App Store?

It may come to pass that a version of Mac OS X will ship with an option to only allow apps from the App Store. It would be a great thing to enable on less-technical-people's computers. However, making it compulsory would chase away the very users their platform depends on for success.

You can already install XCode through the App Store. Soon, that will be compulsory.

Its the next Steve Ballmer!

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