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The App Store is a very successful distribution engine and marketing service, most devs I know are quite pleased with it's existence and Gatekeeper ultimately will make it stronger. I would be extraordinarily disappointed if Apple ever went 'App Store only' though.

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I think it's more likely they'll add ever more developer hurdles and effectively ghettoize unsigned apps than ever just flip a switch and announce "App Store only!"

Unless they change gears and hype up OS XI as a game-changing iOS/OS X merger.

They've certainly taken some steps that are perfect to tease out slippery slope paranoia. It would be a bit scary if there weren't easily accessible alternative OSes.

How will Gatekeeper make it stronger?

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