You are arguing the wrong point. I can install ANYTHING I want on a mac. Even a corrupt Photoshop file. On my phone WITHOUT jailbreaking, I cannot. The argument is not a lack of a full Photoshop program (who needs to use a FULL Photoshop on a 5.5" screen anyway?!), the argument is there are no hacked/cracked/illegal versions you can install without jailbreaking. On the mac, I can. And it will most like contain malware.
No, I got your point. I was making fun of it because it's ridiculous. YOU are the one that seems to be missing the points. ALL of them.
I'm saying THERE IS NO FULL PHOTOSHOP on ANY Apple App Store PERIOD so WTF is the point of bringing up Photoshop on the Mac when it's not available from ANY Apple App store??? You TWIST the argument into you can get a hacked malware laden Photoshop because Apple allows you to do anything you want implying therein that if the Mac was a walled garden you wouldn't have this malware laden illegal software even as an option. But there is no Photoshop on the Mac App Store so it would be MORE ACCURATE to say you would not have Photoshop on your Mac PERIOD. You would have NO professional software because companies that charge large amounts of money don't feel like giving Apple $333 out of $1000 just for hosting the fracking file on their miserable fascist App Store (or raising their price by OVER $333 to compensate for it which pisses off consumers). If Apple creates a walled garden for Mac,
you have no Photoshop at all (malware laden
or legit).
Other points you ignore or missed:
1> You cannot install
unapproved software and this means anything from a Socialism/Communism/Fascist Nanny State where the government (this case Apple) decides what's good for you instead of treating like you an adult that can make their own decisions (You call this hacked/illegal Photoshop versions with malware on them. I called it everything from Handbrake to Emulators to Subler to Adblink to about 50% of ALL software on my computer and those aren't illegal malware ridden programs).
2> The apps store doesn't offer PC compatibility or PC versions at no extra charge like Steam. This saves you from having to buy all new software if you switch platforms. You buy a license for the GAME not the platform.
3> The App store doesn't offer sales like Steam. These are HUGE a couple of times a year. I've saved up to 80% on 1st tier games before and 25-40% is common during these sales. I've NEVER seen a
significant sale on the Apple's Mac App Store EVER. This is possible due to COMPETITION. If there is no Steam, you pay FULL PRICE every single time or put up with some
miserable thing like "ad ware".
4> The App Store represents a monopoly for the iOS platform's SOFTWARE. This means NO COMPETITION. This means NO ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTION and that completely discourages QUALITY SOFTWARE because who is going to put YEARS of development into a program like making Photoshop only to have Apple DENY it and therefore waste potentially MILLIONS in development, let alone lost potential sales. That is 110% the reason there is almost NO "Pro" level software for the iPad Pro.
NO ONE wants to WASTE THEIR FREAKING TIME making something that Apple could deny on a flipping WHIM!!!!!
Thus, if you turn the Mac into a walled garden also,
YOU KILL THE MAC! Even Linux has OPEN software. It may lack commercial software, but the Mac would lack open/free software AND large scale commercial software (again, they won't develop it if they feel there's even a chance it won't be allowed to be sold). It would be a JOKE of a platform. Phones have thousands of small/cheap/worthless/garbage Apps. They take very VERY little time to develop compared to a 1st tier game or App like Office or Photoshop. I don't even hardly bother with Apps on my phone because they're mostly garbage. I've had three iPod Touches and I mostly use "Remote" and the browser. The rest of hardly worth starting. Most are just Web sites in a can as opposed to using the web browser.
Yes, you can try to find and download pirated software on an open platform. That has been true since the Commodore 64 days even. The industry still exists (Microsoft killed Commodore, not pirating). The alternative is to give up any free choice of software since Apple has shown they will not tolerate any number of apps and games due to frivolous nonsense and Victorian era attitudes. How else can you explain the absolute lack of "Pro" apps for the so-called iPad "PRO"? Ask the companies. They don't want to put money into a TINY market where their App could be denied even a chance to be sold. They don't want to give Apple (ala Microsoft with Office) HUGE amounts of money (it's a percentage, not a flat fee which means more expensive software pay a LOT more of the profits to Apple for the same service a 99 cents App receives).
On the Mac, you can make your application (e.g. MakeMKV) and distribute it any way you like. You can use PayPal and pay less than 3% for the transaction compared to 30% from Apple. You keep all that money, not Apple. Apple has every incentive to get that money (hey FREE money for doing NOTHING but hosting and transacting the sale) and developers have every incentive to keep it (years of hard work that Apple wants to take 1/3 of BECAUSE THEY CAN).
Apple via Tim Cook likes to act like they're a responsible company. For example, yes Tim Cook supports gay rights, but then we have to also remember that Tim Cook is gay. So he has every personal reason to support that because it affects him personally and yet when it comes to sales to somewhere like Saudi Arabia, not a peep out of him! Tim makes progress for "green" tech to appease groups criticizing Apple and potentially costing them sales, but then he creates a culture of DISPOSABLE COMPUTERS that are designed to artificially have VERY SHORT lifetimes by purposely making iOS bulkier and slower each year so it takes more power just to do the basics. And when it comes to free choice or offering FAIR prices, he's every bit as nasty as someone like Donald Trump. Screw the customers and developers over for as much you can get away with. Thus, Cook is a charlatan. He looks after #1 and that's it. Shareholders love it. Steve Jobs was more concerned with developing new products and reinvesting money than holding onto it forever or giving it away to shareholders (Apple never had dividends under Jobs).
I may like some Apple products, but lately it's a choice of the lesser of two evils. I always hated Microsoft and I'm liking Apple less and less each year, but the alternative (Linux) still utterly lacks commercial software and support by comparison. But if Apple goes full walled garden on Mac, I'm gone. Period. I will not tolerate fascist control of my computer platform.
