> Now installing software not from the MAS is a warning
No it's not. Where did you get that idea? The only issue is installing software that isn't codesigned with an Apple-signed certificate. Any developer enrolled in Apple's Mac Developer program can get an Apple-signed certificate and self-sign their 3rd-party non-MAS software and users will have the same experience as using MAS software. The only dialog they'll get is the standard "Are you sure you want to run this program you just downloaded?" dialog that we've had for a while now. Which, admittedly, I don't think MAS apps have, but that's because MAS apps aren't downloaded with a web browser; if you install a 3rd-party app via some mechanism other than downloading with a web browser it should similarly bypass that dialog.
> installing software from a developer entirely unblessed by Apple entirely is disabled without already knowing the "right click workaround" (try successfully explaining to a casual user how to install that kind of app)
Well, the simple answer is to change the Gatekeeper setting, but the more relevant question is why are you even providing support for such an app? Any app that isn't properly code-signed is likely to not have had an update in several years. The only excuse beyond old unsupported apps for not properly being code-signed is the rare open-source cross-platform app that provides an OS X download without codesigning, which is not something most casual users are generally expected to be using anyway.
All of this is beside the point anyway. Gatekeper and the Mac App Store are two completely separate technologies. And whether or not your application is distributed on the MAS is not relevant to Gatekeeper, except in that you cannot distribute on the MAS if your app is not properly codesigned.
> It's only logical to extrapolate that to the next steps. maybe in 2015 all non-MAS will require the right-click open. In 2016 or 2017 non-MAS will probably mean not runnable without obtaining a limited-use developer or enterprise certificate from Apple for a fee.
That's pure 100% FUD. It is not at all logical to assume that Apple will pull such an insanely stupid move. iOS being locked down does not at all say that OS X will be locked down in the same fashion; it would be virtually impossible to lock down OS X like that, and any attempt to do so would be so incredibly user-hostile that it's laughable to think Apple would do that, and would probably destroy OS X.
I have to wonder if you have some vested interest in sowing distrust in Apple and OS X. Why else would you make such an absurd claim with a straight face?
No it's not. Where did you get that idea? The only issue is installing software that isn't codesigned with an Apple-signed certificate. Any developer enrolled in Apple's Mac Developer program can get an Apple-signed certificate and self-sign their 3rd-party non-MAS software and users will have the same experience as using MAS software. The only dialog they'll get is the standard "Are you sure you want to run this program you just downloaded?" dialog that we've had for a while now. Which, admittedly, I don't think MAS apps have, but that's because MAS apps aren't downloaded with a web browser; if you install a 3rd-party app via some mechanism other than downloading with a web browser it should similarly bypass that dialog.
> installing software from a developer entirely unblessed by Apple entirely is disabled without already knowing the "right click workaround" (try successfully explaining to a casual user how to install that kind of app)
Well, the simple answer is to change the Gatekeeper setting, but the more relevant question is why are you even providing support for such an app? Any app that isn't properly code-signed is likely to not have had an update in several years. The only excuse beyond old unsupported apps for not properly being code-signed is the rare open-source cross-platform app that provides an OS X download without codesigning, which is not something most casual users are generally expected to be using anyway.
All of this is beside the point anyway. Gatekeper and the Mac App Store are two completely separate technologies. And whether or not your application is distributed on the MAS is not relevant to Gatekeeper, except in that you cannot distribute on the MAS if your app is not properly codesigned.
> It's only logical to extrapolate that to the next steps. maybe in 2015 all non-MAS will require the right-click open. In 2016 or 2017 non-MAS will probably mean not runnable without obtaining a limited-use developer or enterprise certificate from Apple for a fee.
That's pure 100% FUD. It is not at all logical to assume that Apple will pull such an insanely stupid move. iOS being locked down does not at all say that OS X will be locked down in the same fashion; it would be virtually impossible to lock down OS X like that, and any attempt to do so would be so incredibly user-hostile that it's laughable to think Apple would do that, and would probably destroy OS X.
I have to wonder if you have some vested interest in sowing distrust in Apple and OS X. Why else would you make such an absurd claim with a straight face?