It is about the user experience – isn’t it Apple? That’s why you’re the biggest (and best) company on earth. So what the heck where you thinking as you implemented sandboxing the way you did?
Currently sandboxed Apps can’t do (and these are just random examples):
· be used with Dock icon hidden (by user)
· display custom icon (changed by user)
· communicate with other Apps
· mount volumes
· create mail attachments
· open files/attachments without open/save dialog
· and even those save panels do not work properly!
· proper work with Dropbox (the way we are used to)
· send Apple events (really, Apple?)
· fake key commands
And I could extend this list for days.
Many of those cute little Apps and tools that simplify our life will be thrown out of the App Store in the future. Yes. They all have been already approved and are currently sold by Apple. And yes, with Gatekeeper there is a ‘possibility’ to offer them outside of the App Store.
But – c’mon!
No one purchases Apps outside the App Store anymore.
Fix this, Apple. Now…
