Pretty confusing. It's not you, but the concept in general. On 6/26/12, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > You wrote: >> Hi there. A couple questions. Will apps no longer in the app store >> still be available through macupdate.com? Secondly, what are >> sandboxing restrictions? Thanks! > > Any apps that you've purchased from the MacApp Store will still be on your > machine, and these will often be available from individual developer sites, > and listed at MacUpdate.com (The MacUpdate site really just aggregates > information and links to current Mac applications.) > > At present you can get apps either independently through individual > developers or by checking the Mac App store. In many cases, an app can be > found either way. The advantage of the Mac App store is that it's a > one-stop source, and you can also automatically update to new versions of > the applications through a single interface. The disadvantages are that you > can't access time-limited trial downloads of apps -- that's because Apple > won't let anyone sell an app from which they remove functionality at a later > time without additional payment. In some other cases, you can't access > additional freeware software that the developer may refer you to without > going to their web site. An example here might be DVDRemaster Pro, which > allows you to rip DVD's you own to movie files on disk, or rip just the > audio sound tracks to files, or make copies of DVDs that you own. To > function on dvds with digital rights management (DRM), you either need to > have the free VLC multimedia software (an > other third party application) or else download the Fairmount software from > the developer's site. Because the Fairmount software is not Metakine's > own product, although they can legally point you to it for distribution > copies, they can't bundle it with their DVDRemaster Pro software in the Mac > App Store, and you have to go to their web site to get it. > > The issue with sandboxing is when programs can take control of the > performance of other programs. Restricting this provides extra security, in > the event of malware, or even of unforeseen consequences of programming, and > sandboxing means that programs can only control the local environment of > their own program. But it can also remove capabilities. Sarah gave one > example with growl notifications. Here's another, to show this can work > both ways. Many users like Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack Pro, which lets you > record and redirect your audio streams in many ways, including capturing and > recording audio from specific applications. Four years ago, after a > security update in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), Gordon (the list owner) asked > whether anyone had lost the ability to do secure logins with SSH after the > update. I hadn't, but a quick web search turned up the answer that the > Instant Hijack feature in Audio Hijack Pro was incorrectly written in a way > that made programs like SSH fail > . (This had to do with moving the location that a program like SSH starts > up in memory to a different place each time, to make it harder for an > attacker to take control of your system. Instant Hijack used the protocol, > but managed to hose SSH behavior.) This kind of dependency is a pain to > troubleshoot. Fortunately, there were so many Audio Hijack users that it > became evident that the problem was tied to that software, and the developer > quickly came up with a fix. > > So the tradeoff is between greater safety for the user experience vs. > improved software capabilities when programs can control other programs. In > the case of TextExpander, you would no longer be able to type predefined > custom snippets that would expand into anything you liked (such as your > signature line, or just an easy way of typing a set of phrases or computer > code. Instead, it would have to work the way it does on the iPhone, where > only applications that included the free TextExpander API in their code > would let you do this. In other cases you would have to type, then copy and > paste to get the benefit of this. > > Here's a link to another article about the current concerns of developers > with sandboxing: > iClarified article, "Mac App Store Sandbox Leaves Developers Frustrated" > Tuesday, 26th June 2012: > http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=22842 > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >
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