Reply to post: Re: I can see the appeal. Walled garden,

The march of Macs into the enterprise: Demand is on the increase

Smirnov

Re: I can see the appeal. Walled garden,

In order to ship any macOS software whatsoever, I have to register with Apple, and send them a copy of every single application I want to ship for them to inspect.

Nonsense. First of all, you only need to send them a copy of your application if you want to sell through the Apple app store for macOS. You don't have to do that to sell or offer your app through anywhere else.

In addition, you only have to register with Apple if you want to use Apple's development toolset (XCode), but there are other compilers and IDEs (like VSCodium) which you can use if you're inclined to do.

Lastly, if your software isn't notarized then the user gets a warning but he can still decide to run your application. Yes, it got more complicated on Apple Silicon (command line) but still it's easily possible to run non-notarized apps on macOS.

macOS absolutely is a walled garden.

No, it's not, and the term doesn't mean what you think it does.

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