The writing's been on the wall for a very long time now. This is just another symptom of the continuing clamp down of OS X.
The App Store was the first manacle, and Gatekeeper is the second. It's no longer the default that you can install apps from outside the Apple walled garden. I'll go out on a limb and guess that a couple of OS X versions from now they'll move the override to an obscure command line. The next one after that it will be removed completely.
The sort of Kafkaesque nightmare this poor guy just went through will become the norm, with no way to escape it.
Personally I moved away from the Apple ecosystem a long time ago to Linux. At first I felt bad for the people left behind, but with each new story about non-upgradeable and repairable hardware, needless (and dangerous) patent litigation and the continuing iOSification of OS X, I feel less and less sympathetic towards them.
Exactly. I'm much happier overall on a Linux machine but I have to be able to deal with Photoshop and to a lesser extent Fireworks. If Adobe ever makes a non-crap port of either of these to Linux I will be the first in line with cash in hand to buy it.
It isn't on a limb to repeat the nonsensical accusations that your ideology has been spewing all over hacker news for the past four years (and everywhere else too.)
Of course its also something that would never happen, if you are honest about how Apple operates.
You can even install unregulated software on a stock iPhone..... just downloaded from the net. Javascript Apps were there a year before the AppStore-- full apps, that run without a net connection and have access to the full iOS UI.
Of course this fact is inconvenient to the "Apple monopoly" story and so you guys never mention it and probably many of you who have never used iOS or developed for it don't even know about it.
We don't need your sympathy-- we're living much better lives with more freedom here on Apple's platform.
I'll take Steve Jobs and his compatriots looking out for my ass over Richard Stallman dictating my life, down to my very thoughts, any day.
Oh that's wonderful, the entire UI. Not the hardware, can't go very fast, but you have the UI!
Something that's as sandboxed as a web page is not a proper program. If that's the only thing you can install without explicit apple approval then it's not good enough.
The App Store was the first manacle, and Gatekeeper is the second. It's no longer the default that you can install apps from outside the Apple walled garden. I'll go out on a limb and guess that a couple of OS X versions from now they'll move the override to an obscure command line. The next one after that it will be removed completely.
The sort of Kafkaesque nightmare this poor guy just went through will become the norm, with no way to escape it.
Personally I moved away from the Apple ecosystem a long time ago to Linux. At first I felt bad for the people left behind, but with each new story about non-upgradeable and repairable hardware, needless (and dangerous) patent litigation and the continuing iOSification of OS X, I feel less and less sympathetic towards them.