Very true, and an interesting comment. It is interesting to see the other platforms attempting to model themselves after this (such as the Windows application store or whatever it is called), although you obviously have the power to install and run whatever you want there.<p>I truly hope that OSX does not become the crippled&#x2F;locked-down OS that iOS is. I know the new rootless feature is a warning sign, as is only allowing signed applications to run.<p>The hard part for us as developers is that we have to eat and pay bills, so all fleeing to Linux to write desktop software there won&#x27;t pay our bills. The wide adoption of these Internet appliances (eg. iPad) means we railroaded into writing for them, or find another occupation.