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But you need Safari to test the extension and Safari only has these extensions on a Mac? This is Apple’s way of avoiding their store getting cluttered with exte
by lstamour 5y ago
But you need Safari to test the extension and Safari only has these extensions on a Mac? This is Apple’s way of avoiding their store getting cluttered with extensions that haven’t been tested to work on Safari. And yes, it also encourages developers to buy Macs. It can do both…
- saagarjha 5y agoHave you ever looked at the Mac App Store? It is a literal dumpster fire.
- herpes 5y agoCould you give me an example of this please? I'd love to see what you're referring to.
- saagarjha 5y agoHere's one article about it: https://www.howtogeek.com/281849/dont-be-fooled-the-mac-app-store-is-full-of-scams/ https://www.howtogeek.com/281849/dont-be-fooled-the-mac-app-.... It's still pretty bad.
- simondotau 5y agoCan you explain what you mean by “literal dumpster fire” because this doesn’t align with my own experience. I’ve used it for purchasing a number of apps recently and I saw nothing eyebrow-raising. So long as the app you want has been uploaded to the store, it works perfectly fine.
- saagarjha 5y agoThe App Store is OK for the apps you know are on it and you search for them directly. But the rest of the store is just junk and scams, mostly.
- simondotau 5y agoThat’s true of pretty much any App Store that isn’t strictly invitation only. If you have an app follows Apple’s rules, it gets listed. Whereas Steam, by comparison, exercises editorial control over all of its content. The solution for a better Mac App Store would require Apple to be similarly dictatorial about content. In that sense I agree with you; personally I think it was a mistake of Apple to have the Mac App Store so closely mirror the iOS App Store. They should have made it a more aggressively curated experience.