Mac App Store denial

Re:Mac App Store denial by tptacek on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:25AM (#2004222)

Stories about Mac App Store rejections are even less interesting than stories about iPhone rejections, because unlike the iOS platform, you can trivially distribute unvetted programs yourself.

That doesn't make this a bad blog post, but, if we can possibly head off a day-long argument over the merits of app store approval processes, that'd be neat.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by NathanKP on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:41AM (#2004267)

I agree with you that a Mac App Store rejection isn't as fatal as an iPhone App Store rejection but I still feel that there is room for discussion about the fact that Apple considers this app to not be useful.

I had never heard about it before this entry on HN, but I downloaded it, because up until now my solution for Lorem Ipsum was to keep a text document full of it on my desktop and copy and paste into my HTML mockups.

LittleIpsum looks like a very useful tool for designers. Perhaps Apple only wants the App Store to be for apps that have broad appeal to "normal" people who aren't designers and content creators.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by jeremymcanally on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:36AM (#2004465)

Most design tools these days have this capability built in somewhere in the menu hierarchy (go ahead and look for it; it's probably there). I could see where they'd reject this for minimal usefulness since, I think, the App Store is supposed to be the showcase of the best and brightest apps (or something like that).

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Re:Mac App Store denial by pchristensen on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @01:01PM (#2005030)

Especially for the launch. They want peoples' first reactions to be "Wow!"

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Re:Mac App Store denial by biot on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:57AM (#2004340)

There's also http://lipsum.com which is quite useful.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by remi on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @09:59AM (#2004347)

because unlike the iOS platform, you can trivially distribute unvetted programs yourself.

But do you think developers will always have that option?

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Re:Mac App Store denial by generalk on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:02AM (#2004543)

Preventing users from running code not obtained through the Mac App Store would change the Mac fundamentally from a personal computer to something like a console.

Apple making that move would alienate every software dev and anyone who's ever bought a boxed retail app that's unavailable on the App Store, just to start.

Clearly, Apple likes markets they can control completely, but I think that if the time comes Apple will simply stop selling and supporting Macs rather than attempt to fundamentally change what a Mac is. And if it does happen, it'll happen very slowly.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by orangecat on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @01:03PM (#2005041)

I think that if the time comes Apple will simply stop selling and supporting Macs rather than attempt to fundamentally change what a Mac is.

I'd say that would still count. A prediction I'm more than 50% confident of: by the end of 2016, Apple will not sell any consumer-targeted products that run unapproved apps.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by tptacek on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:06AM (#2004559)

And, Apple already has a platform exclusively for curated apps: iOS. The whole notion of a "Mac App Store" revolves around curated apps on an otherwise open platform. A locked-down MacOS is really, from the perspective of consumers (the only thing that actually matters), just iOS.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by tofumatt on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:12AM (#2004393)

Apple will not prevent ad-hoc app distribution on the Mac; doing so would prevent Adobe from releasing Creative Suite on the Mac because of their non-App Store-compatible licensing.

Won't happen. Or if it does, easy: time to leave the Mac.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by lukeschlather on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:23AM (#2004427)

For most people a $600+ dollar purchase with highly depreciating value is not something you can just walk away from.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by aristidb on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @12:20PM (#2004869)

Given that this will certainly not happen in the next 2+ years, I think you would have gotten some value from the device by that time.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by tptacek on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @10:46AM (#2004494)

Yes.

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Re:Mac App Store denial by foljs on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:18AM (#2004608)

I.e do you decide on your business moves with 10 year plans about what MIGHT happen...

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