Your first sentence claiming that apps must be in the Mac app store in order to use low latency HLS video streaming doesn't appear to be right. The help.apple.com support page you link to says that the API is limited to developers who have Apple Developer Program membership, but that page doesn't indicate that the apps must be distributed via the app store. That's a big difference. Is that limitation documented somewhere else?

I updated the first sentence to add "or granted a special entitlement by Apple. In either case, that's not how an open platform works."

Even if no entitlement is needed, you shouldn't have to pay a $99 rent to the platform owner to use certain APIs. That wouldn't be an open platform.

Isn't this almost the same as the Windows/IE bundling antitrust case? Actually it's potentially worse.

Basically they have disabled a feature that already exists on the OS, and only let you take advantage of it unless you use their bundled system (app store).

macOS has less than 10% of the desktop/laptop market, so it's not an abuse of a monopoly position even if they are doing the same thing Microsoft did with Windows and IE.

Just say "no" to Apple --- as most people already do.

They have their captives, fans and "subscribers" but for most, their approach is a non-starter and has been for at least the last decade.

Author here. I agree, and I'm typing this from my Windows laptop :)

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Correct. Also, you've just described Linkedin.

Its like they are just daring regulators to go after them at this point...

Screw Linkedin.

And if you don't see value in having a walled garden, then go back to Windows. Most people need computers to work, not to be playthings for themselves or for unscrupulous developers. If Macs become appliances, then good.

Macs will not only become locked down consoles ... but will just become a system that nickel and dimes you with subscription services left and right. Where simple app functionality that is freely distributed is now repackaged and sold at a 5.99$ per month for the “pro” version.

Most people need computers to work . Give me a break.

> Macs will not only become locked down consoles ... but will just become a system that nickel and dimes you with subscription services left and right

Maybe, I suppose.

But if you watch their other video from the first day of WWDC [1], at about the 20 minute mark they mention that they've already ported a bunch of open source tools to MacOS ARM64:

Bgfx Blender Boost Skia Zlib-Ng Chromium cmake Electron FFmpeg Halide Swift Shader Homebrew MacPorts Mono nginx nmap Node OpenCV OpenEXR OpenJDK SSE2Neon Pixar USD QT Python 3 Redis Cineform CFHD NumPy Go V8

And they say they will start contributing those ports upstream now that they've done the announcement.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/102/

Will these ports help Raspberry Pi versions of the same programs?

I doubt it as they likely run flawlessly on the Pi already thanks to community efforts.

If anything apples "porting" will have benefited from the Pi not the other way round