alt Hacker NewsApple can’t see a future where Mac isn’t like iPhone. They need a 30% cut of all software revenue, want a 30% cut of any AI tokens you use, and will steal 30% of your time as a software developer developing for your own account any way you can.
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I don't think that's fair, they've spent a lot of time and effort ensuring the Mac is still an open/UNIX like platform, including (where they didn't have to):
- Per-install boot security policies
- Custom kernel boot (kmutil configure-boot)
- Raw-image boot mode
- XNU source releases
- Disabling SIP
- Disabling the Signed System Volume
- Third-party kernel extensions
- Developer ID distribution and notarisation
- Gatekeeper "Open Anyway" override
- Hypervisor.framework
- Virtualization.framework
- Rosetta for Linux VMs
- Nested virtualisation
- macOS guest provisioning
- DiskImageKit
- Custom Virtio devices
- Containerization framework
> Apple can’t see a future where Mac isn’t like iPhone.
Can you blame them? Their managers cannot code, so they need something else that is "useful" to do. And the one thing they find useful is to increase revenue.
This. I'm quite confident that they look at the Mac as a "profit-leaking" product they gradually need to bring on-par with their other products, but can't make any big steps to avoid alienating the userbase.
But I'm sure the day of the iOS-based iMac will come, and pandora's box will be opened. Businesses will love it, especially those with Kiosk use-cases, and not before long we will read everywhere (including here) how superior the security is to a Mac for everyday use...