![]() ![]() You would be pretty much free of any restrictions except those imposed by the various standards entities such as IEEE, W3C, ANSI, ISO, ACM. You would be free to customize those apps to fit your individual preferences and add features you want. If you want complete freedom go down to Fry's, buy individual components, and assemble your own PC (or even a Macenstien), install your choice of the available versions of Unix (maybe even the BSD Unix that underlies MacOS) and get your software from Source Forge, The Open Source Initiative, etc. I can't agree that it is shameful that Apple and the App Store have made multi-millionaires out of a substantial number of developers and are holding all the developers to stricter standards to help ensure user's security and privacy. The trend is highly unlikely to change, but with Apple's new APIs in Catalina and iOS 13 there is the possibility some (many?) of those "Universal" apps will include MacOS as well as iOS variants. But she still clings her Mac mini because of its larger screen and keyboard feel.) To carry the analogy one more step, she often leaves her iPhone at home because 80% or more of her use can be done on her Apple Watch. (Why should a user buy a MacBook Pro when for $1,000 to $2,000 dollars less they can get an iPad that is arguably as fast, has builtin cellular capability, significantly better battery life, is lighter and easier to carry, and is capable of most of what the computer can do? For example, my wife has given up her iPad because she feels she can do everything she wants or needs to do on her iPhone and it is far more portable. That and the fact that the computer market gets smaller every year as users migrate to smart phones, tablets, and even wearable devices instead of a computer. Which explains why there are hundreds if nit thousands of more developers working on iOS apps than there are working on Mac apps. Personally I preferred the old App Store app to the new one, but admittedly the new one is probably better for the iPhone and like it or not there are tens of millions more iPhone customers than Mac customers. This number is down from last year because Apple has tightened the App Store requirements after some shady — if not outright malware — apps had managed to get on the App Store. Of those 23,373 are for the Mac, 324,061 iPhone Only, 38.410 iPad Only, and 671,380 Universal apps. Not many Programs on the App Store According to out of the out of a total of 4,030,978 Total Apps Approved by Apple 1,057,224 currently appear in the App Store. The only credo these people live by appears to be, Let's do what we can get away with until the money runs out. Now Apple is at the top of.something.but Macs and the macOS have been abused and neglected. I had no feelings for or attachment to the company otherwise. It seems to get worse every week.Īll those years I wanted Apple to do well was because I liked the products and wanted them to get better. It would be easier to accept if there were some positive gain in return. Wherever I turn in the Apple world, my freedom is being diminished. I can't use the App Store with 1Password the way I do other web sites because it's not a web page, it's a separate program. And I have to sign into the App Store every time. I'm not going to address the larger problem of how developers are treated. There are problems with functionality programs downloaded from the developer are sometimes better than the App Store versions. I don't need the App store to take over a simple task. I dislike the App store installing programs on my computer. I use tabs all the time in Firefox, but of course you can't do that on the App store, forcing you to do a lot of back and forth. ![]() They are poorly organized and poorly described. It's as though after Steve Jobs died, his psychotic characteristics remained in the company, but none of the good ones. Private property and the ability to repair your own products are next in line. I'm plenty unhappy about the existing ways Apple keeps me tethered to the mothership and fiddles with my computer without my knowledge. There are many reasons to avoid the App store. ![]() ![]() It's just as convenient for me go to MacUpdate or PureMac or a developer's web site. ![]()
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