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Re:Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on ... by 10729287 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:05AM (#39464083)
... and they're working on breaking it on the personnal computer too. For security reasons, obviously.
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Re:Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on ... by paulmd on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:25PM (#39470219)
No, they’re not. macOS is a fully-functional Unix environment, and apple has been as welcoming towards Asahi as they can be while staying officially 100% divorced from all activity related to it (Asahi has seen apple do releases with enabling work for the bootloader that had no possible purpose other than enabling third-party OS).
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Re:Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on ... by jjav on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:45PM (#39473732)
> macOS is a fully-functional Unix environment

Out of the box it is not. As root I can't read or write files that the permissions say I can, among other problems. It is still possible to disable all this but they make it more and more difficult.

If I were to bet, I'd bet that the roadmap is to eventually make OSX be iOS, where you can't do anything except what apple specifically lets you do.

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