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asdasd said:

nunzy said:

asdasd said:

rob53 said:

Apple hosts the servers and provides billing. It also checks apps to (hopefully) make sure they are abiding by the rules, which helps all users. Isn’t that worth 30%? If developers had to do all of this on their own (if App Store was open) I bet the vast majority would never even get more than a handful of downloads. 

Prior to the Mac App Store there were, probably still are, other payment and download services. Not that’s it too onerous for large devs  to do this either. 

The mac Mac App Store might be good for discoverability if featured. 

If Apple wants Mac App Store to be the best for its customers, it should make Mac impossible to sideload with malware. It works great for iPhone. Security is paramount to the user experience.

I think by malware you mean non Mac App Store apps. They already can stop malware (default settings force the app to be registered and Apple can invalidate the very).

If you mean Mac App Store only that would kill the Mac. 

Agreed. The day they lock down the Mac as if it were a giant iPad is the day I say "goodbye". I have too much necessary software that isn't in the Mac App Store, and probably will never be because of the restrictions Apple places on its operability if in there, for me to be without it. I'll just run it on "that other platform" although I loath to do so.