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Your app is an exception since it needs to interact with some system level APIs so it can't be sandboxed. But stop promoting yourself at the cost of the AppStor
by blub 10y ago
Your app is an exception since it needs to interact with some system level APIs so it can't be sandboxed.
But stop promoting yourself at the cost of the AppStore, it's getting tiresome.
The AppStore adds value to the user: convenience when downloading and updating, sharing between computers and some level of guarantee that the app won't harm your computer or spy on you.
Of course, app developers being how they are, they still managed to screw this up by implementing analytics, or unpublishing v1 and publishing v2 as a separate app so that one loses access to the old purchased versions.
Additionally, most non-AppStore developers go through the trouble of signing their apps in order not to scare away users, but then serve the download over a CDN and don't publish the signature info over a secure channel that they control.
- ThomPete 10y agoYou are missing the point of this conversation completely.
- blub 10y agoThe point is doing some guerilla marketing for your app, I get that. As long as people have an officially supported option to download and install software by themselves, the AppStore's convenience and security outbalance its drawbacks. It should be improved, not shut down like you want. In general, Apple seem strike a good balance between security (gatekeeper, sip, AppStore) and freedom (one can turn the above off and install whatever they want).