{"id":12775,"date":"2015-11-10T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2015-11-10T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T18:09:27","slug":"the-mac-app-store-with-convenience-comes-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/the-mac-app-store-with-convenience-comes-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac App Store: With Convenience Comes Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3002141\/software\/the-mac-app-store-with-convenience-comes-several-compromises.html\">Rob Griffiths<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3002141\/software\/the-mac-app-store-with-convenience-comes-several-compromises.html\">\n<p>A user may not know what sandboxing is, but they may wonder why a developer &ldquo;chose&rdquo; to put up an annoying &ldquo;please grant permission&rdquo; dialog box when they try to do something.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This may not seem limiting, but we&rsquo;ve heard from many customers who tell us they use computers at work that are blocked from the App Store; these buyers would have no recourse if we sold solely on the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>App review times can be an issue if you&rsquo;re trying to patch a critical bug or get a major new release in customers&rsquo; hands. Currently, the review time is about seven days[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More important than the average review time is its variance. A week is bad enough compared with the minutes that it takes to update a directly sold app. However, sometimes the review process stretches on for a month or two, for no discernible reason.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Griffiths: A user may not know what sandboxing is, but they may wonder why a developer &ldquo;chose&rdquo; to put up an annoying &ldquo;please grant permission&rdquo; dialog box when they try to do something. [&#8230;] This may not seem limiting, but we&rsquo;ve heard from many customers who tell us they use computers at work that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,30,39,352,53],"class_list":["post-12775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-namemangler","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12776,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions\/12776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}