The other side of this is, when I complain about Apple not allowing sideloading on iOS, I get asked why I use an iPhone if I don't like the policy.
(fwiw, I have no issues with macOS as long as unsigned apps can still be run, and lots of issues with iOS where they cannot be.)
Other companies only require account for using non-OS API such as Firebase / Google Services for example.
Sure that's beyond the reach of most people, but how on earth do you people imagine that people develop and test new apps on iOS devices if you think an app _must_ be published to the App Store to run at all?
I kinda like that requirement because it means that I'm technically capable enough to make a potentially system-breaking change. It's not as nice and friendly about it as macOS but I think it's a fair compromise.
Interesting. The number of people of who I know that they have complained about Apple, and of who I also know that they have never used an Apple product is zero.
If one actually considers the spirit of my comment (people getting caught up in outrage about issues they can't actually judge properly), several of the comments of this very post make it pretty clear that their authors have likely never interacted with a Mac for a day in their lives but are nevertheless very opinionated about how this change will affect macOS users.
My comment was not a particularly long one. Try reading it through the end.
I was agreeing with this person that I responded to and talking about the one that you responded to.
It’s definitely easy to get confused with the HN ui though. I wish they would put vertical lines or something to the parent comment or just think of something better. I thought we had half of the worlds software geniuses here! Can’t we figure this out?
And those who are loudest about animal abuse in factory farming, don't eat meat.
Now, Apple is making that impossible, which hurts developers who can't afford to go all-in on the mac platform.
How do you test your software without the machine you're targeting? Every programmer knows that VMs aren't as good as the real thing.
Not everyone can afford to keep around a lab full of macs running multiple versions of macOS.
Judging my the reaction to my comment, Today I Learned it’s acceptable to release software with only cursory testing on a friend’s computer. Explains a lot about recent software quality actually...
I'm concerned at this point about if anybody that this supposedly effects has actually done any research at all on it.
Anecdotally, I find that the people who are loudest about Apple's misdeeds (both real and assumed) are often people who've never even used an Apple product.
There is plenty of legit criticism of Apple to be made, and you certainly don't have to be an Apple customer to make it. But half the time what I see instead is pearl-clutching from people who don't have enough experience with the platform in question to tell what an announced change even does, blowing up what amount to minor inconveniences into the end of all life as we know it.