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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by izacus on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:23PM (#12647484)
Is draggin an .app file to "Applications" directory such a hard exausting thing to do you'd rather give up the choice of which apps you can use and functionality of said apps (sandbox!)?
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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by eridius on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @04:26PM (#12647504)
Give up? I wish more apps were sandboxed! If an app can function inside the sandbox (and the overwhelming majority of apps have no problem with being sandboxed) then they absolutely should be. It's a major security benefit.
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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by izacus on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:39PM (#12648151)
Except that there are whole swaths of tools and applications that cannot be published at all due to limitations of Sandbox, making your computer limited to a whim of someone on the other side of the world.
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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by eridius on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:47PM (#12648213)
Yes they can, they just can't be published on the Mac App Store. But the existence of the MAS does not affect anybody's ability to distribute applications outside of it.

> making your computer limited to a whim of someone on the other side of the world

That's a really weird way to say this. Security is not a whim.

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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by mikestew on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:58PM (#12648297)
Except that there are whole swaths of tools and applications that cannot be published at all due to limitations of Sandbox

You're right, just ditch whole damned sandbox thing because a few tools won't work.

Or in an ideal world where we didn't have to decide between one extreme or the other, we could sandbox everything that doesn't have a problem with it, reserving the exceptions for those few tools that don't get along well with a sandbox. (Vetting the hell out of those non-sandbox apps, of course, because we don't want to "<make our computer> limited to the whim of someone on the other side of the world" which in this case wouldn't be Apple.)

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Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store by megablast on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:52PM (#12648255)
And those ones you need to install? What is the problem? Are you upset because the app store doesn't solve every problem, just a lot of them?
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