Apple has started the process of locking down the Mac, just like the iPhone and iPod. OS X 10.7 will allow third party stuff to be installed without the Mac App store, but what about 10.8 or 10.9? When will the Launchpad interface which makes it look like an even bigger iPad become mandatory?
Ubuntu has its centralised Software Centre and Android has it's Market which install apps and automatically update them for you, but you are still able to install applications yourself from whereever you want. Windows is the other extreme, all apps are installed manually and handle updates themselves, which leads to chaos in the taskbar as they all jostle for your attention when updates are there. I think Ubuntu has it about right.
I saw this coming when they invented the iPhone, and I lost interest in the Mac platform some time ago. But the worrying thing is that what Apple does, everyone else tries to copy, with varying degress of success.
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