"If you get an error saying that this app is from an unknown developer, that's because Apple doesn't trust you to make grown-up decisions yet about what applications you want to run. Just find Sleep app in your Applications folder, right click on it, and click Open."
Yes, Apple doesn't trust you, and with good reason. I think we have properly demonstrated the average public has no sense at all when when it comes to running software from unknown developers with the chance that it is potentially malicious and damaging.
The setting to turn that off permanently is really only a couple of clicks away. "Grown-ups" know how to find it easily. Others are better off not being able to do it without understanding how it works.
I don't think developers do either. Apple prompting you when you run an untrusted app for the first time is almost certainly a good thing (app replaced with a malicious one? you'll get an unexpected prompt), and it hurts nobody.
Yes, Apple doesn't trust you, and with good reason. I think we have properly demonstrated the average public has no sense at all when when it comes to running software from unknown developers with the chance that it is potentially malicious and damaging.