They allow it. Just after you acknowledge that you know what you are doing and are on your own. From the AppStore, the risk is Apple's as it checks for what apps do before putting them on there. So, security.
— Rishi Talreja Sent from my iPad > On 29-Oct-2013, at 7:31, Vishal Sheth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok. But it's funny they don't allow 3rd party apps to be installed. > > Vishal Sheth > Sent From My iPhone 5 > >> On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:55 AM, Rishi Talreja <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Because they introduced this new feature in Mountain Lion called Gatekeeper >> which by default allows installing apps only from the Mac Appstore and from >> developers with a security certificate. If you try to install anything else, >> it fails, thereby enhancing the security of the system. If you want to >> install apps from outside, you can change the preference to allow all apps >> but that is not recommended. So the other way to do that on a per app basis >> is to instead of double clicking, right clicking and clicking on open. The >> idea is almost everyone would just double click to open an app. So if you >> are right clicking to open you are explicitly acknowledging the fact that >> you know that the app is from an unknown source and you are fine with >> installing it as you trust the developer or the source that app came from. >>> On 28-Oct-2013, at 20:19, Vishal Sheth <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks Rishi, it went through. Why did I have to do that? >>> >>> Vishal Sheth >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Rishi Talreja <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Right click or ctrl click and select open. >>>> >>>> — Rishi Talreja >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>>> On 28-Oct-2013, at 19:02, Vishal Sheth <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have Open Office 3.4.1 on my Mac. I downloaded the update. It's not >>>>> getting installed. It says that the installation is from unknown source. >>>>> Any solution? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Vishal Sheth >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> IMUG Website: www.imug.in >>>>> To buy & sell Apple products please post the message on the iAppleBS >>>>> group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iapplebs >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "IMUG Users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> IMUG Website: www.imug.in >>>> To buy & sell Apple products please post the message on the iAppleBS >>>> group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iapplebs >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "IMUG Users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> IMUG Website: www.imug.in >>> To buy & sell Apple products please post the message on the iAppleBS group: >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iapplebs >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "IMUG Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> — Rishi Talreja >> >> -- >> IMUG Website: www.imug.in >> To buy & sell Apple products please post the message on the iAppleBS group: >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iapplebs >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "IMUG Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > IMUG Website: www.imug.in > To buy & sell Apple products please post the message on the iAppleBS group: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iapplebs > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "IMUG Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- IMUG Website: www.imug.in To buy & sell Apple products please post the message on the iAppleBS group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iapplebs --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "IMUG Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
