Apple has been a shitty company for a good 15 years now.
Ever since they force the app store into their Desktop OS. There are certain signs a company gives when they’re become overly adversarial with customers.
One of my machines is a mac.
They set up an app store many years ago, but it was never forced or required. Just install stuff the way you always did, and forget that the app store application exists.
Or are you mixing it up with the developer signing thing? That shit was annoying, and needed a terminal command to disable.
Apple has been a shitty company for a good 15 years now.
Ever since they force the app store into their Desktop OS. There are certain signs a company gives when they’re become overly adversarial with customers.
Right now Android are giving those signs.
When did they force an app store on the desktop os?
Some time between Snow Leopard and that free version of the OS they offered. I think it was Mavericks (10.10).
You’ll have to look into yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(Apple)
But yeah technically you could still run a Classic II with OS6.9 and never have to upgrade if that’s your point.
Getting apps outside the App Store is trivial. Even unsigned apps.
There are better things to be mad at Apple about.
You’re on Enshitification trying to argue stuff is “good actually.”
It hasn’t been good since they bought SoundJamMP and got rid of the Eclipse vizualizer.
One of my machines is a mac.
They set up an app store many years ago, but it was never forced or required. Just install stuff the way you always did, and forget that the app store application exists.
Or are you mixing it up with the developer signing thing? That shit was annoying, and needed a terminal command to disable.