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It's a problem for commercial software for end-users that isn't from the Mac App Store. Apple continues to tighten the leash, and it's approaching strangulation.


...how exactly is right-clicking (once) to run an app approaching strangulation, again?


Please. I don't think you are replying to me in good faith. (Edit: on further reflection, I don't think I have anything useful to exchange with you. If you can't understand why this is a problem, there is nothing more we have to say to one another. Here's a hint, though: there is no regular menu item to do this. It's not discoverable at all, intentionally. Macs don't have a right-click button, and right-clicking or control clicking is not expected to be necessary to accomplish anything in macOS.)


> Macs don't have a right-click button

I am...rather confused as to how you think people bring up context menus on macOS.

Unless you're being extremely pedantic and mean that I should call it "secondary-click" instead of "right-click", which wouldn't exactly be in the best of faith.


Apps that aren't distributed on the App Store are treated like second-class citizens on macOS. You can't even install them without having to chase down esoteric instructions.

If you don't understand why that would be an issue for a company that sells applications outside of the App Store, I don't know what to tell you.


> You can't even install them without having to chase down esoteric instructions.

You literally just run the installer like anywhere else, what on earth are you talking about? How is that an esoteric instruction?


Well I think the one thing that I'm gathering is that a normal user won't know to do that (right-click and click "open").

The scary thing to me is there's no "Open Anyway" button that was mentioned further up in the thread.

I haven't used Catalina yet though so I'm not super sure of all these facts.




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