Welcome in appstore land, where the system is merely a collection of independent applications with no relationship with each other.
Makes it indeed easier to build, deploy and sell software, compared to the former world of one big distribution where thousands of software packages were designed to work together.
I do believe the driving force in this trend is not coming from the users but from the producers desire to assert property of the software. Think the enclosure trend, for software.
> Welcome in appstore land, where the system is merely a collection of independent applications with no relationship with each other.
"App store" is having a centralized distro repository where you get all applications from (e.g. Windows Store), and "merely a collection of independent applications with no relationship with each other" is exactly the opposite (e.g. that's how the Windows apps were distributed before the advent of Windows Store).
Makes it indeed easier to build, deploy and sell software, compared to the former world of one big distribution where thousands of software packages were designed to work together.
I do believe the driving force in this trend is not coming from the users but from the producers desire to assert property of the software. Think the enclosure trend, for software.