The reason is that this pretty much defeats the objective of being sandboxed in the first place. There’s no chance of Apple granting us an “entitlement” to do that during the review process. Tools such as BBEdit (an awesome text editor), TextExpander (an awesome snippet expander), Panic’s Coda (an awesome web development tool) and many others (many of them awesome) are leaving the Mac App Store because of these limitations.Ī Better Finder Rename 9 is in the app store as “ Better Rename 9” and we have managed to keep it non-sandboxed by only shipping “fixes” and no major upgrades for years.īy its very nature, a file renaming tool needs unfettered access to the file system. games) work very well in their sandbox, but most professional applications require fairly unfettered file system access, inter-application communication and/or internet access. Access to anything outside that “container” needs to be specifically allowed either by the user or by Apple during their review process. In a nutshell, it just means that applications cannot access your entire computer, but are restricted to a “safe” container with their own memory and disk space. Clearly the Mac App Store is better for some customers.Ī few years ago, the Mac App Store started to demand that all applications be sandboxed and that was the beginning of the end for many professional productivity applications on the Mac App Store. Nonetheless most of us “old timers” have made our software available on the Mac App Store due largely to popular demand. There are a few things that I want to get out there before the first beta ships and those are mostly to do with the Mac App Store and upgrades.Īs many of you will be aware of, the Mac App Store is not much loved by Mac OS X software developers, because it is very different from the “traditional” Mac Indie software distribution that many of us feel is superior in very many ways. Since the beginning of the year, I have been working flat out on version 10 of A Better Finder Rename and we are nearing the first beta release.
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