macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

A compelling way to enact change at large corporates is to vocally communicate when and why you are forced back into a buying position as a customer.

Apple VPs who are listening, especially Craig Federighi - here is an early warning for you. The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. I de-Googled my entire life over similar transgressions by Google and several of my friends are gradually going through the same process, albeit more slowly.

And even though I just bought an MBP16, Apple monitoring every binary I run makes me want to sell it immediately and never buy another iPhone, Watch or Macbook. No one is going to catch Apple on performance and form factor for a long time, but I'm willing to invest in a long-term ecosystem that won't allow things like this...as long as I don't need to debug audio drivers. I am done with that phase of my life.

So if I had to choose an alternate path, what would such a path look like that could eventually approach the build quality of an Apple Macbook Pro? That product doesn't have to exist yet, it just has to be on the path.

(I looked at Alienware's M2 and M3, but it cost about the same as an MBP16 but with more blue LEDs.)

Microsoft saw that Macs were eating their lunch regarding developers and researchers when e.g. nearly everyone doing AI was on a MacBook or Ubuntu. You had a hard time getting Tensorflow to run on Windows because no one in the community really cared.

Also everyone developing applications in the cloud was eventually targeting Linux as the production OS, which is a pain if your development OS is pretty much hostile do anything command line.

MS then put a lot of money into getting a Linux like command line and support into Windows with WSL.

They also got a bunch of influencers and devs do their thing with improving that kind of developer's experience.

Apple, however, has been sitting on their hands in this regard. They are moving exactly the opposite direction with this crowd.

I have no idea what rationale is behind that. Did they come to a different conclusion than Microsoft or are they just failing to execute on the strategy?