Apple blocks even apps that they define as “too old”.
Like every new version of Macintosh forces every developer to scramble and update their app even though nothing needs to change just so Apple doesn’t block them.
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Agent641@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’ve never used a Mac, can you not just write your own app and run it?
I do that on windows all the time.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s fucked. Normally I can coax just about any windows app to run on even windows 11, and I have to because sometimes I interact with ancient industrial machines with monolithic Configurator apps that need a serial connection and a bunch of weird custom commands that was last used in 1998. I’d be boned without them.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Afaik, Microsoft made it a core principle to not break backward compatibility. Something that mattered to a lot of enterprise users. Applications made in Windows XP era, still work today on Win 11.
Tortellinius@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s a pretty cool thing ngl. But unfortunately it doesn’t make up for everything else.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You can. You can also install other package managers like brew.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
You can run what ever you want, it doesn’t stop you outright, it just asks you a bunch of times and makes you jump through some hoops if the program isn’t from a verified source. It’s annoying for someone who knows what they’re doing, but arguably a good backstop to keep someone clueless from running something hostile.
mimavox@piefed.social 3 hours ago
For now, that is. Thing is that MacOS is on a trajectory where it becomes more and more locked down.
Bababasti@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Pfff get outta here with your differentiated opinions, weighing pros and cons and all that mumbo jumbo. macOS bad!!11