The fact that they still allow this would point towards the latter. They are quite capable of locking it down like they do the iPhones.

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londons_explore 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And I suspect they will lock it down in a year or two.

It was only really open to ease the transition between intel and arm.

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musictubes 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Give it up. People have been predicting this for 15 years.

You can’t have a development machine locked down like iOS. As long as the Mac is the development machine at apple it will need to be able to run arbitrary code.

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londons_explore 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It will still run arbitrary code... Within macos...

But they'll remove support for other OS's

	▲	willy_k 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What support? Asahi had to fight to exist, especially early on when they essentially had to reimplement much of the graphics pipeline. And now its in mainline linux - short of a complete hostile lockdown of the bootloader, it’s not like they support other OS’s very much as is.
	▲	GeekyBear 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The company making locked down laptops is Google.

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r_lee 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean it'd be pretty easy for Apple to just make a special version of the OS/bootloader/whatever for their internal use

	▲	internet2000 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They could. They won't. Macs will never be bootloader locked, on that I'm confident.