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Apple tried sandboxing everything from the Mac App Store. Developers hated it. Was it just the execution of the Mac App Store processes or the limitations of t
by Flow 8y ago
Apple tried sandboxing everything from the Mac App Store. Developers hated it.
Was it just the execution of the Mac App Store processes or the limitations of that particular sandbox implementation that was bad or are desktop apps incompatible with sandboxing because of the historical freedom they enjoyed?
- eropple 8y agoI'm not an Objective-C developer--everything I ever wrote using the Mac App Store was in Java, of all things!--but I found it really not a problem at all. There are some applications that were incompatible for one design reason or another with the OS X sandbox, but I still to this day think a lot of it was "this is harder than I am used to, therefore no."
- pvg 8y agoWhy 'tried'? It's still there and OS X itself is progressively making it less trivial for random unauthenticated code to do whatever it wants in general.
- pjc50 8y agoSandboxing and app storification are separate things - one is a security measure and one is a grant of veto over all software on the platform to a single company.