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You can already figure out what other apps are installed on the mac using the app store apps today. So if that is your concern you are really not being helped b
by ThomPete 10y ago
You can already figure out what other apps are installed on the mac using the app store apps today. So if that is your concern you are really not being helped by the app store.
You can have permission models for these things. I am not asking for untethered access to the entire machine without any permission.
I would even be fine with both having to ask Apple for specific permission via the app submission process and then ask the user if it was ok to give access to specific things.
There are so many ways this could be solved both gracefully and effectively but because apple have decided not to use any real resources on the osx it doesn't happen.
- danieldk 10y agoYou can have permission models for these things. I am not asking for untethered access to the entire machine without any permission. I fully agree with this. The ideal model if Apple cared more, would be: fully sandboxed by default, the application can ask extra permissions. But given that Apple does not do this, for me as a user 'sandboxed' is a better default for me than 'not sandboxed'. I can install/purchase the few applications that are absolutely impossible without sandboxing (e.g. VMWare) outside the App Store.
- ThomPete 10y agoSure and thats all fine. My point is simply that the mac app store adds almost no value as most people don't use it for installing apps. They use it for updates.