This seems alarmist, not far fetched, but a bit alarmist. My suspicion is that we won't see Apple go completely down this road, because it would kill an entire market for their computers that currently helps them sell systems, and that's those of us who are developers that like the experience of the OS for development. Let's say Apple does go down the path this article lays out. It would kill the machine in the scien…
It seems like it's going that way though. I used a MBP as a phd student and postdoc for scientific computing and at the time ~2010-2015 it was fantastic for that, all my peers thought so as well. At conferences/seminars, there would just be a sea of macbooks with a few linux machines scattered around. That is definitely starting to change - not by choice, more like people are being squeezed out due to the increasingl…
I haven't run into an issue with the "App Store and identified developers" yet, tough I assume I will at some point. But I actually don't mind that as a means of helping prevent some malicious software from running on my machine.
That's not to say I'm not worried Apple will lock it down more, but I think that would really kill the platform, right now it feels like an ok balance.