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seanismorris said:

Isn’t the Mac App Store supposed to prevent this bad behavior in app installs?

How can the install be “shady” if using this method?  

Are people installing Zoom using another method?

Zoom is not in the App Store. People go to Zoom's website and download the installer. Part of the problem is that they aren't using the installer correctly to bypass security features.

Frankly, their developer certificate should be revoked by Apple to protect users. They are deliberately circumventing security processes on the Mac and exposing users to vulnerabilities. Additionally they are lying about their security features. Apple would be completely justified at this point simply revoking their certificates and breaking their installer and application. There are plenty of alternative conferencing applications out there that people can switch to quite rapidly.

EsquireCats said:

Second to this Job's didn't really have a vision for the iPad after launch, for years it simply went into decline - it's been under Cook's leadership that the device has found it's own niche, the guy can clearly think further ahead than this own immediate desires.

I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs didn't have much of a vision for anything other than his own survival at the time the iPad was released. Tim Cook was interim CEO at that point and permanent CEO very shortly afterwards with Jobs stepping back to just be Chairman for the remaining months of his life. The stagnation you refer to happened under Cook.

What made Jobs such a revolutionary in tech was that he wasn't trying to guess what the market wanted. He made the product he wanted to use and made it the best way he could. We hear the same philosophy over and over from those from that era like Ive. We don't hear that so much any more. Jobs didn't try and fulfill the need you thought you had. He figured out what you and everyone else wanted because he wanted it too. And no one knew that that was what they really needed all along until Jobs and crew released. No one knew they needed a touch screen phone, or a table for that matter, until Jobs and his team made the phone and tablet that they themselves wanted to use.

It was actually because he focused on what he wanted, rather than try and guess the whims of the market like Gates was doing, that these innovations happened. Not in spite of it.

He's complaining about the DAC (Digital-Analog Converter). Basically he's confusing the capabilities of any software product manipulating digital audio with the quality of the headphone port. So Neil, we should put a $300 DAC in every MBP and push the price up for everyone so that people who still listen to music with wires can have marginally better quality? Both my MBPs are on mute 99.9% of the time. But both of us should pay more so that you don't have to plug in a separate device to listen with your wires? Exactly what does the DAC have to do with the rest of your comments on music production and software? How does the DAC have anything to do with recording since it's output only? If I use $10k worth of equipment to record and output audio and use Garageband for production, what specifically is wrong with that? Displaying ones ignorance in public is unbecoming. Go back to your guitar (something you are actually supremely good at). No one cares what you think about the new fangled computers.

So software went from costing multiple tens to multiple hundreds of dollars before the app store model down to single digits. Could someone explain where the inflated prices are? This has resulted in the general expectation that software costs less than it used to across more platforms than just iOS. The average price of most Mac software has also gone down as people are used to paying a couple of dollars for something on their phone and are less willing to pay the old style prices for software on their Mac. Software has always had these low, low prices on iOS so they can't compare the current situation to a previous one to justify the claim of inflated prices. They can only compare to the situation on other platforms where the prices were literally orders of magnitude higher, and have now seem to have come down some. I do not think that word means what they think it means!