There's a lot of whispering going on behind the scenes and some developers have had enough (and I guess more to come in the future). The only way to have your v

There's a lot of whispering going on behind the scenes and some developers have had enough (and I guess more to come in the future). The only way to have your voice heard would be to leave the MAS. If Apple wanted, it could easily resolve all issues very quickly. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe it will happen. You're quite right that the convenience is part of the big pull of the MAS. But as you say, this can be implemented separately. If you can get the critical mass with some major players behind it, it can become a standard in no time. The security issues related to sandboxing are not insurmountable, either. We can have both sandboxed apps that have wider accesses so that we don't restrict the freedom of users.