Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
by scarface74 on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:52AM
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The Mac was intended to be a much more tightly controlled developer environment. And it came out at a time when there was still a lot of debate over the right way to develop a computing platform.
This is very much not true. The entire extension mechanism on Macs was about using undocumented hacks to add functionality. Apple has no control over what a third party app could do through the Classic MacOS era from 1984-1999.
In fact, it wasn’t until around 2011-2012 when Apple started having sandboxing and that was only for Mac App Store apps. It was even later that they had system integrity protection. Even today, you can basically do what you want to on the Mac except for having unsigned kernel extensions.
This is very much not true. The entire extension mechanism on Macs was about using undocumented hacks to add functionality. Apple has no control over what a third party app could do through the Classic MacOS era from 1984-1999.
In fact, it wasn’t until around 2011-2012 when Apple started having sandboxing and that was only for Mac App Store apps. It was even later that they had system integrity protection. Even today, you can basically do what you want to on the Mac except for having unsigned kernel extensions.