It still a walled garden in the sense that Apple is the only one that can code sign and certify software for the MacOS. So every dev that wants to release software on MacOS still needs to pay for membership of Apple’s developer program even if they don’t distribute trough the App Store. Unless they want their user to disable a security feature on MacOS and ignore the warnings.
That’s not exactly true. Users don’t have to “disable” anything. They just have to click a button that says they understand the risk of running unsigned software. You can run anything you want on MacOS.
If we’re talking hardware restrictions, sure I get it from the walled garden.
Mac OS isn’t iOS, there is no walled garden.
It still a walled garden in the sense that Apple is the only one that can code sign and certify software for the MacOS. So every dev that wants to release software on MacOS still needs to pay for membership of Apple’s developer program even if they don’t distribute trough the App Store. Unless they want their user to disable a security feature on MacOS and ignore the warnings.
That’s not exactly true. Users don’t have to “disable” anything. They just have to click a button that says they understand the risk of running unsigned software. You can run anything you want on MacOS.
Right but you can still install any app regardless.