I think Apple is relatively content to not dominate the mass market, though. Look at their computers- they are a premium price, but they still make a lot of profit on them.
Now that they are crippling their OS, and trying to force everyone to use their App Store (which prevents powerful tools as a policy), who could they possibly be going after?
Que? How is providing the ability to have only programs compiled and signed by developers that have paid money "crippling their OS"?
Here's a fun fact, I haven't even changed the settings for that downwards on the very laptop I'm on.
I can still compile stuff fine, run Emacs.app. Install Google Chrome and Firefox. Nothing of substance has changed.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much. You do realize the default of "Mac App Store and identified developers" doesn't mean what you think it does right?
Signed apps are great for the user; the question is who is the CA and how do you get a certificate? The security options are App Store, signed, or everything; I and many others suspect they will change the default to App Store only in the future.
I also do not approve of almost everything else added in Lion. It's like they are pushing hard to attract people that don't know how to use computers, but at the expense of those that do.
For the record, I didn't like how you wrote in a manner that was condescending and overly familiar, either.
I think a number of people are worried about Apple shooting themselves in the foot, or screwing their customers. Apple's handling of software development in the '80s almost killed them. Microsoft's 'steal it, pirate it, just develop for it' mantra got us to where we are today.
Apples default of signed programs is probably best for consumer safety, but many times the best ideas don't win the market.
Perhaps, but to be honest until Apple does something entirely crazy I think the worry is premature. Microsoft had more than the "do what you want with it" mantra, their lockin to any pc hardware was more valuable. Additionally 80's Apple isn't much of a parallel to today, the company is not at all the same.
The signed binary stuff has been in OSX since around 10.4, so to think this is a recent action by Apple is somewhat wrong.
