Leaving the Mac App Store

Post by wyattjoh » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

Post by jhull » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 3:42 PM UTC

nnx wrote: post #8

> We should also add that this move is not a knee-jerk reaction to the recent certificate expiration problems that affected so many Mac App Store customers. Any good link/background about this?

Post by ilolu » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 3:44 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

nicksergeant wrote: post #9

Good. The other day the App Store was down and I couldn't use half of my downloaded apps because they failed "verification". I'll be happy as a clam to see more developers move their apps off of the App Store.

Post by Alex3917 » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #4

song wrote: post #3

I avoid buying from the mac app store as much as possible. If Apple ever decided to change mac os x to no longer allow external applications, I would switch to Linux right away. I don't want to do that because I do like the os X better a GUI... But there's no way I'd stay on a system that wouldn't allow me to do what I want with it.

EDIT: That would be suicide (for the whatever 5% of their sales the mac brings in!). If they imposed a rule like that AND continued to neglect the app store the way they do, droves of developers would leave. Unless they rethink or overhaul their sandboxing system to allow a bigger class of applications (essentially, most of what's out there), they won't be able to move power users to the App Store.