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> No one uses the Apple app stop on MacOS because apparently it's terrible AFAIK, most major apps are on the macOS app store.

nezza-_- 10y ago
Afaik quite some of the major apps were leaving it in the last years (Sketch comes to mind), but might just be my filter bubble.. Would be interesting to hear from some Mac OS devs
- moduspwnens14 10y ago
  It's just tricky because of the restrictions, and it's not just the restrictions themselves but the reality that you're limited to them in the future. Even if your app can run in a sandbox today, are you willing to turn down any future feature requests that would make it so it won't? We're putting an app on there, but our app is kind of an ideal use case because we don't expect to have to add features that can't work in the sandbox and our app is free. It's a tougher sell if you have to cut features to fit in the sandbox or hand off 30% of your sale to Apple. Admittedly that 30% isn't unreasonable if you're really just starting out. That does include hosting, purchasing, and billing. But those things can be done at a much cheaper rate than 30% if you can set them up. Panic is one of my favorite Mac app developers and (just checked) one of their apps (Coda) is distributed outside the App Store [1], while Transmit is distributed on both. [1] https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/ https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/
abrowne 10y ago
What's "major"? No Office (only OneNote), no Adobe Acrobat or CC...
- denzil_correa 10y ago
  > No Office (only OneNote), no Adobe Acrobat or CC... Office for Mac - https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-for-Mac/categoryID.69404500#For-Mac https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-... Adobe Acrobat Reader for Mac - https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-reader-dc-mac-os.html https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-reader-dc-mac-os.... What's CC?
  - SyneRyder 10y ago
    Those aren't links to the Mac App Store. The previous poster was talking about major apps that aren't available through Apple's own App Store for the Mac. Similarly, while you can get Photoshop Elements in the Windows Store, I don't believe you can get the full Photoshop CC on the Windows Store yet.
  - sebtoast 10y ago
    Adobe Creative Cloud maybe?
    - abrowne 10y ago
      Yes, I meant Creative Cloud.

nezza-_- 10y ago

Afaik quite some of the major apps were leaving it in the last years (Sketch comes to mind), but might just be my filter bubble.. Would be interesting to hear from some Mac OS devs

moduspwnens14 10y ago
It's just tricky because of the restrictions, and it's not just the restrictions themselves but the reality that you're limited to them in the future. Even if your app can run in a sandbox today, are you willing to turn down any future feature requests that would make it so it won't? We're putting an app on there, but our app is kind of an ideal use case because we don't expect to have to add features that can't work in the sandbox and our app is free. It's a tougher sell if you have to cut features to fit in the sandbox or hand off 30% of your sale to Apple. Admittedly that 30% isn't unreasonable if you're really just starting out. That does include hosting, purchasing, and billing. But those things can be done at a much cheaper rate than 30% if you can set them up. Panic is one of my favorite Mac app developers and (just checked) one of their apps (Coda) is distributed outside the App Store [1], while Transmit is distributed on both. [1] https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/ https://panic.com/blog/coda-2-5-and-the-mac-app-store/

abrowne 10y ago

What's "major"? No Office (only OneNote), no Adobe Acrobat or CC...

denzil_correa 10y ago
> No Office (only OneNote), no Adobe Acrobat or CC... Office for Mac - https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-for-Mac/categoryID.69404500#For-Mac https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-... Adobe Acrobat Reader for Mac - https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-reader-dc-mac-os.html https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/install-reader-dc-mac-os.... What's CC?
- SyneRyder 10y ago
  Those aren't links to the Mac App Store. The previous poster was talking about major apps that aren't available through Apple's own App Store for the Mac. Similarly, while you can get Photoshop Elements in the Windows Store, I don't believe you can get the full Photoshop CC on the Windows Store yet.
- sebtoast 10y ago
  Adobe Creative Cloud maybe?
  - abrowne 10y ago
    Yes, I meant Creative Cloud.