> This is the type of behavior Apple intends to prevent with their signed app distribution, loathed by so many here.
Just because something is a solution, it doesn't automatically make it good. I can _at the same time_say that it is problematic that people die in the traffic _and_ loathe banning cars altogether.
Letting Apple act as the internet court might help on some problems. But letting a commercial entity act as legislative, executive, and Judicial power in the software distribution realm is simply not a good solution.
Just because something is a solution, it doesn't automatically make it good. I can _at the same time_say that it is problematic that people die in the traffic _and_ loathe banning cars altogether.
Letting Apple act as the internet court might help on some problems. But letting a commercial entity act as legislative, executive, and Judicial power in the software distribution realm is simply not a good solution.