I&#x27;m not sure who you&#x27;re quoting with those quote marks. It&#x27;s not Apple though, because I don&#x27;t believe they ever said any such thing.<p>The reason Apple has always given is security. This is the reason they gave for not allowing third party access to the JIT version of the javascript engine. Their critics at the time claimed this was really because they didn&#x27;t want other browsers competing with Safari, and they&#x27;d never let anyone have it because of that. Then when Apple developed the XPC framework allowing secure remote execution, they opened up the JIT engine to third party browsers in a secure way.<p>So far Apple&#x27;s actual behaviour has been completely consistent with their stated reasons, which are not the reasons you are &#x27;quoting&#x27; from somewhere, and in several respect contrary to the predictions of their critics. Isn&#x27;t it possible that they are being honest about their motives?<p>But on the other hand, yes, the Mac App Store is a broken mess. Right now it&#x27;s part of the problem with app distribution on the desktop, not part of the solution.