{"id":17383,"date":"2017-03-10T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17383"},"modified":"2017-03-11T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:45:17","slug":"st-clair-software-leaves-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/st-clair-software-leaves-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Clair Software Leaves the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stclairsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/goodbye-mac-app-store\/\">Jon Gotow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.stclairsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/02\/goodbye-mac-app-store\/\">\n<p>For both applications, complying with Apple&rsquo;s sandboxing and feature constraints to get them approved for sale would have required significant rewrites. And in Jettison&rsquo;s case, it would also require that buyers download a separate helper app to enable its full functionality. I realize that some people will be put off or inconvenienced by the fact that these apps are no longer in the Mac App Store &#x2013; my apologies if you&rsquo;re one of those folks, but it just doesn&rsquo;t make sense for Jettison and HistoryHound.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Their other two products are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stclairsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/01\/app-tamer-2-3-1-improves-spotify-support-and-fixes-bugs\/\">App Tamer<\/a>, which I&rsquo;ve been meaning to try to reduce Dropbox&rsquo;s CPU use, and the venerable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stclairsoft.com\/DefaultFolderX\/index.html\">Default Folder X<\/a>. Those are probably impossible to sandbox.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2017-03-11): See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/sipapp.io\/announcement\/\">Sip<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/videoloupe\/status\/840516208650723329\">Videoloupe<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/z31r4m\/status\/840513405995823104\">Bad Uncle Leo<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Gotow: For both applications, complying with Apple&rsquo;s sandboxing and feature constraints to get them approved for sale would have required significant rewrites. And in Jettison&rsquo;s case, it would also require that buyers download a separate helper app to enable its full functionality. I realize that some people will be put off or inconvenienced by [&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":[1494,101,47,30,32,39,53],"class_list":["post-17383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-tamer","tag-business","tag-dropbox","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383","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=17383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17390,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17383\/revisions\/17390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}