Re:Leaving the Mac App Store
by mikeash on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @11:52AM
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You can compile software for iOS too. If you consider this to be an adequate escape hatch for the Mac, then it must also be one for iOS. If OS X "will never get to a point like the iPad" then the iPad can't get to that point either!
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Re:Leaving the Mac App Store
by squeaky-clean on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:49PM
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But you can't compile software for iOS on iOS, can you? You'd need an iPad + Mac to compile the software. You don't need {{external machine with different OS}} + Mac to compile OSX software.
That is true, so we could limit it to "if you own a Mac" then the iPad is not limited. But basically nobody actually bothers to work around the limitations in this way, aside from recent events surrounding f.lux.