Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in th

Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in the next five years for two key reasons: Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite. Half the App Store fear is the Kafka-esque approval process (the other half being the 70/30 revenue split), and neither Adobe or Microsoft could do ground-up rewrites even if they wanted to.