No hackery. Just partition your HD or SSD before installing Catalina. Install Catalina in the new partition, but leave Mojave in the old. You can also reinstall the OS your Mac shipped with to start over clean.
You can inspect your archives (in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode). No source code is included. So Apple doesn’t get any (unless you send it with a bug report, etc.)
Which means you can install any kind of app you want by building from source using Xcode.
Hahaha. So funny. Read all the comments by informed responders it should help clarify the situation for you. Not everything has to be a tin foil hat event
Yah, bring on the malware and viruses! Actually there are quite a few comments by informed responders that should help
Glad you posted that. I was about to be pissed if it meant they could just decide overnight they’re not going to allow things like torrent apps or whatever app I feel like. If I wanna put malicious crap on my computer that’s my choice. Not apples. It’s bad enough there’s no side loading ability, even for very experienced users, on iOS (without jailbreaking obviously)
No, the app archive bundle does not include source code. Open it and look for yourself.
tuappsmartphone.blogspot.com
The symbols are not the source code. I’m not sure what you are trying to say, but even with the symbol map one has too reverse engineer to get meaningful human-readable code from an archive.Just one example among many explanations:
How to use Archive in Xcode: Distributing Applications
Before submitting an application to the App Store or share it with others, you create an application archive. You can then share your a...
“An archive is a bundle that includes your product along with symbol information.”
The symbols are a map of the source code used for debugging purposes. This is what I meant by the source code being included. Apple doesn’t have to reverse engineer anything because the code is fully mapped through the debug symbols in every app archive.
Nope, for the time being they will auth everything, then once they are firmly in control and most apps are authorized then they will crack down. Of course, by then its too late for any resistance.
Apple this afternoon announced that developers who create Mac apps outside of the Mac App Store will need to submit them for the notarization process starting on February 3, 2020.
Apple temporarily relaxed the notarization requirements for non Mac App Store apps in September after the launch of macOS Catalina, and at the time, said developers would have until January 2020 to get used to the new rules.
The January 2020 deadline has been extended to February 2020, but at that time, developers will need to adhere to Apple's requirements.
Apple suggests that developers upload their software and review the developer log for warnings, as these warnings will become errors starting on February 3. Apple says that all errors will need to be fixed by that date for software to be notarized.Apple has been requiring new software distributed with a Developer ID outside of the ?Mac App Store? to be notarized in order to run since macOS Mojave 10.14.5, with the notarization process designed to protect Mac users from malicious and harmful apps.
For the notarization process, Apple provides trusted non ?Mac App Store? developers with Developer IDs that are required to allow the Gatekeeper function on macOS to install non ?Mac App Store? apps.
Notarization is not required for apps that are distributed through the ?Mac App Store?. More information on notarization can be found on Apple's developer site.
Article Link: Apple Requiring Notarization for Non Mac App Store Apps Starting February 2020
You can spin it any way you want, but I'm not going to continue spending $2-3k on Apple hardware when they are clearly trying to get MacOS as close to a walled garden as possible. And who is to say they won't completely lock it down? They are already making developers pay for it which seems like a bad faith practice.
