{"id":12888,"date":"2015-11-18T08:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12888"},"modified":"2015-11-18T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:18:30","slug":"not-on-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/not-on-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Not on the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.typed.com\/articles\/not-on-the-mac-app-store\">Dan Counsell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.typed.com\/articles\/not-on-the-mac-app-store\">\n<p>The Mac App Store has been around for 6 years, but is still lacking some of the best software the Mac has to offer. You might be wondering why this is. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imore.com\/mac-app-store-and-trouble-sandboxing\">Sandboxing<\/a> certainly has a lot to answer for, but it&rsquo;s not the only reason. There&rsquo;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/the-mac-app-store-paid-upgrades-and-trials\/\">paid upgrades<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.helftone.com\/mac-app-store-the-subtle-exodus\/\">sustainability<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2014\/10\/bbedit-at-max-q\/\">quality of life<\/a>, and the Mac App Store just generally being <a href=\"http:\/\/furbo.org\/2015\/07\/22\/half-assed\/\">half-assed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t let all that get you down though, there&rsquo;s plenty of <a href=\"http:\/\/dancounsell.typed.com\/articles\/the-benefits-of-selling-software-outside-the-mac-app-store\">benefits to selling software outside of the Mac App Store<\/a>. I&rsquo;ve compiled a list of over 60 apps that are all world-class and seem to be doing just fine without it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To this list, I would add some of the apps that I have installed: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\">Arq<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.code42.com\/crashplan\/\">CrashPlan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsoft.com\/DiskWarrior\/\">DiskWarrior<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosofteng.com\/drive-genius-4\/\">Drive Genius<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coriolis-systems.com\/iDefrag\/\">iDefrag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/diglloydtools.com\/integritychecker.html\">IntegrityChecker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/freron.com\">MailMate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailsmith.org\">Mailsmith<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/namemangler\/\">Name Mangler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/more\">OmniDiskSweeper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/likethought.com\/opacity\/\">Opacity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecamm.com\/mac\/phoneview\/\">PhoneView<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/razorant.com\/profittrain\">ProfitTrain<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/skim-app.sourceforge.net\">Skim<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sourcetreeapp.com\">SourceTree<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vienna-rss.org\">Vienna<\/a>. There are also lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikouka.net\/mailapp\/\">Mail plug-ins<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Counsell: The Mac App Store has been around for 6 years, but is still lacking some of the best software the Mac has to offer. You might be wondering why this is. Sandboxing certainly has a lot to answer for, but it&rsquo;s not the only reason. There&rsquo;s also paid upgrades, sustainability, quality of life, [&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":[30,32,39,1199,53],"class_list":["post-12888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888","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=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12897,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions\/12897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}