{"id":28462,"date":"2020-03-25T16:11:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T20:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28462"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T20:31:48","slug":"a-different-zoom-in-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/25\/a-different-zoom-in-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Zoom in the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/nutshell.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/nutshell.html\"><p>Remember when people <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/zoom-stock-confusion-fools-investors-1028951115\" title=\"&ldquo;Zoom Stock&rdquo; Confusion Causes Investors to Put Stock in Wrong Company\">bought the wrong Zoom stock<\/a> because ZOOM is Zoom Technologies, whereas ZM is Zoom Video Communications? Well they&rsquo;re at it again, this time on the Mac App Store instead of the stock market. &ldquo;Zoom is an [sic] screen magnifier&rdquo; [&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The fact that mistakenly purchased abandonware is among the top paid apps is an indictment of the Mac App Store. Why isn&rsquo;t the &ldquo;real&rdquo; Zoom on the Mac App Store? I don&rsquo;t have any insider information, but as a Mac developer I can make an educated guess: Mac App Store policies. Specifically, Mac App Store policies that restrict API usage, especially the sandboxing requirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/zoom-vulnerabilities\/\">Zoom Vulnerabilities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"a-different-zoom-in-the-mac-app-store-update-2020-04-10\">Update (2020-04-10): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1245448140804755461\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1245448140804755461\">\n<p>The misidentified, mistakenly purchased Zoom app is now #1 top paid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"a-different-zoom-in-the-mac-app-store-update-2020-04-15\">Update (2020-04-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1249788137649438721\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1249788137649438721\">\n<p>The mistakenly purchased &ldquo;Zoom&rdquo; Mac app, which hasn&rsquo;t been updated in 4 years, did nonetheless raise its price in the past week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: Remember when people bought the wrong Zoom stock because ZOOM is Zoom Technologies, whereas ZM is Zoom Video Communications? Well they&rsquo;re at it again, this time on the Mac App Store instead of the stock market. &ldquo;Zoom is an [sic] screen magnifier&rdquo; [&#8230;][&#8230;]The fact that mistakenly purchased abandonware is among the top paid [&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":"2020-03-25T20:11:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"4fe202ae-a927-4a1f-99ae-a6d81baf02c2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-04-15T20:31:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AT-ICrqknSh-ZrqbYG68Cwg","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":[1931,30,39,1666,53,1839],"class_list":["post-28462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-covid-19","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-15","tag-sandboxing","tag-zoom"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28462","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=28462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28673,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28462\/revisions\/28673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}