{"id":42592,"date":"2024-03-21T16:25:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T20:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42592"},"modified":"2024-03-25T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T14:58:20","slug":"popclip-leaving-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/popclip-leaving-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"PopClip Leaving the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.popclip.app\/t\/popclip-is-leaving-the-mac-app-store\/2188\">Nick Moore<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.macpowerusers.com\/t\/popclip-is-leaving-mac-app-store\/36671\">andy4222<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/forum.popclip.app\/t\/popclip-is-leaving-the-mac-app-store\/2188\">\n<p>PopClip&rsquo;s almost 13-year journey on the Mac App Store has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The reason? I can&rsquo;t update PopClip with new features on the Mac App Store any more. This is due to Apple&rsquo;s sandboxing policy. [&#8230;] The review team did also clarify that if I removed new features from the update, it would be accepted without sandboxing. [&#8230;] Staying on the App Store without the possibility of meaningful updates would mean the death of PopClip.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not clear to me why Apple doesn&rsquo;t want to allow the accessibility APIs in the Mac App Store, given that they are already protected by TCC permissions that the user must grant. Sandboxed apps in the store <em>are<\/em> allowed to get full disk access, record the screen, etc.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?page_id=2208\">Many<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/manytricks.com\/blog\/?page_id=4388\">Tricks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/17\/msgfiler-4\/\">MsgFiler 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/textexpander-4-leaves-mac-app-store\/\">TextExpander 4 Leaves Mac App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"popclip-leaving-the-mac-app-store-update-2024-03-22\">Update (2024-03-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@rustle\/112136317749269916\">Doug<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/hachyderm.io\/@rustle\/112136317749269916\">\n<p>the only granularity is allow or don&rsquo;t and once you have it you can read the contents of passwords fields and all kinds of other trouble. they really need some permission granularity but those HIServices apis haven&rsquo;t changed for real in years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Moore (via andy4222): PopClip&rsquo;s almost 13-year journey on the Mac App Store has come to an end. The reason? I can&rsquo;t update PopClip with new features on the Mac App Store any more. This is due to Apple&rsquo;s sandboxing policy. [&#8230;] The review team did also clarify that if I removed new features from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-03-21T20:25:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"22fa8581-6a65-4322-9303-e7853b9fb454","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-03-25T14:58:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIvqFgWplQyKTA-eFO5-0VA","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":[30,32,39,2385,155,2144,53],"class_list":["post-42592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-moom","tag-popclip","tag-sandboxing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592","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=42592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42617,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions\/42617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}