• craftrabbit@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    You can absolutely install whatever the fuck you want on your Mac, including another OS. iOS is much more restrictive however, if you want to install a self-made app, you have to reinstall it every week or pay Apple 100 bucks a year…

    • macOS just makes you jump through a hoop every time you run an application that’s not notarized.

      In practice that means cross platform open source projects don’t want to pay money to join apple’s developer program and set up code singing and deal with certificates.

      So after download an unsigned app, macOS refuses to start it until you go to system settings > security > and allow.

      You have to do this again after every update.

      It’s very annoying and does very little for security.

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      6 days ago

      Indeed, that really is awful. Good luck sending that so to your friends without making it public in app store.