Re: [OT] This is scary: the future of MacOS X apps (via Rixstep)
Re: [OT] This is scary: the future of MacOS X apps (via Rixstep)
- Subject: Re: [OT] This is scary: the future of MacOS X apps (via Rixstep)
- From: Phaedra Stewart <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:36:26 -0500
Accidentally sent this to Oliver directly. That'll teach me to assume which address the Reply button will use and not look at it. >_< Thanks for telling me, Oliver.
Strictly speaking, Steve Jobs said "Nope" to the combined question of whether there will be an app store AND whether it will be required. There may be a non-mandatory app store as an additional source of software and his response would still be true. I don't see that happening simply because nothing points to that. Code signing as it is currently implemented in desktop OS X is very much not designed to interfere with execution. Instead, it authenticates new versions of an application to the system-wide keychain that handles credentials. The current purpose is to let you update your FTP client, for example, and not get the "Hey! This program changed! Do you trust the new version with your passwords?" prompt. Fewer security-related prompts means the prompts that do appear are more unusual and therefore more likely to be taken seriously.
Code signing could be changed to prevent execution of unsigned applications in the future, but I doubt that that will happen for several years at least. The open development environment of Mac OS X is one of its major advantages. Free, first-rate developer tools. DTrace shipping on every system. Tons of money and effort poured into improving GCC, LLVM, CUPS, WebKit, and who knows how many other projects. They also just went to a lot of trouble to get it certified as proper UNIX, not just UNIX-like. I don't see them doing all of this, then requiring that anyone who wants to compile code pay them to be a developer. It doesn't make sense.
iPhone is different. It was never marketed as an open device, or even a smartphone. It was marketed as an iPod. They want to tightly control the user experience because that is what they are selling. A device you don't have to maintain. An appliance.
At this point, I question the original source of the rumor, Rixstep. Have they ever done anything of note? Have they ever published a "scoop" like this? Have they ever given *anyone* any reason at all to believe them?
I call troll.
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Phaedra Stewart
On Apr 26, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Olivier Tristan wrote:
> On 4/26/2010 8:51 AM, tahome izwah wrote:
>> I hope it's a hoax or some kind of April fools joke:
>> http://rixstep.com/1/20100424,00.shtml
>>
>> Sorry for the offtopic post but this really scares the crap out of me...
>>
>>
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> http://www.macstories.net/news/steve-jobs-no-mac-app-store/
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> Olivier Tristan
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