<story><title>The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/07/26/mac-app-store-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bobby_Tables</author><text>The iOS App Store does the same thing with changing the rules in the middle of the game, but it is not subject to potential irrelevance because it is the only place to get software for iOS devices.  So the obvious solution for Apple is to make the Mac App Store the only place to get software for MacOS.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m actually a little surprised this didn&apos;t happen in 10.8.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>archgrove</author><text>Which would instantly kill the Mac as a development platform, and render all previously purchased software irrelevant. This just won&apos;t happen, though I can see a &lt;i&gt;version&lt;/i&gt; of OS X that does this by default (perhaps on all &quot;non-pro&quot; models).</text></comment>
<story><title>The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance</title><url>http://www.marco.org/2012/07/26/mac-app-store-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Bobby_Tables</author><text>The iOS App Store does the same thing with changing the rules in the middle of the game, but it is not subject to potential irrelevance because it is the only place to get software for iOS devices.  So the obvious solution for Apple is to make the Mac App Store the only place to get software for MacOS.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m actually a little surprised this didn&apos;t happen in 10.8.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tyrannosaurs</author><text>A few reasons why I think this will never happen:&lt;p&gt;* Taking something away from someone that they&apos;ve always had (as would be the case with OS X) is very different to never giving them it (as has been the case with iOS).&lt;p&gt;* People are used to doing stuff that isn&apos;t possible with the current restrictions - with iOS they&apos;ve only ever had those restrictions so they&apos;re not aware of what they might be missing out on.&lt;p&gt;* Developer goodwill would evaporate overnight. I&apos;m not even sure it would be possible to develop on a Mac with this sort of restriction in place given the low level activity you often need to play around with.&lt;p&gt;* They&apos;d need to develop a parallel mechanism for managing machines or lose what little they have of the Enterprise who are never going to use the app store.</text></comment>