Apple gave developers the option to prevent their apps from running on M1 Macs, citing that this may lead to poor user experience. From my perspective this is quite anti-user: this is a Mac, a fully-featured computer in which the user should be able to do whatever he wants! Users should be given the option to install whatever software that is capable of running, as long as it is legal. After all, suboptimal user experience is better than nothing, and this will also encourage developers to make macOS apps to optimize the experience. But instead, Apple went further into preventing even the power users (who knows what they are doing) from sideloading iOS apps. And now iOS apps on macOS is pretty much a joke.
You see, Steve Jobs made all iPhone apps available on iPad, even though the experience was suboptimal. Because of this the iPad became significantly more useful during its early stages when the ecosystem isn't complete, and I haven't heard any complaints about this -- if you don't like iPhone apps on iPad, just don't install.
Now we still have many apps that support only iOS, Android and Windows but not macOS, e.g. Genshin Impact. These apps are clearly capable of running on macOS but the developer chose not to make it available, even without plans of making a native macOS version. If we were given the option to run all iOS apps on macOS just like running iPhone apps on iPad, this would have been a different story.
You see, Steve Jobs made all iPhone apps available on iPad, even though the experience was suboptimal. Because of this the iPad became significantly more useful during its early stages when the ecosystem isn't complete, and I haven't heard any complaints about this -- if you don't like iPhone apps on iPad, just don't install.
Now we still have many apps that support only iOS, Android and Windows but not macOS, e.g. Genshin Impact. These apps are clearly capable of running on macOS but the developer chose not to make it available, even without plans of making a native macOS version. If we were given the option to run all iOS apps on macOS just like running iPhone apps on iPad, this would have been a different story.
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