Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
by izacus on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:39PM
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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
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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.
Re:Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store
by mikestew on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @05:58PM
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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.)