{"id":8494,"date":"2014-02-26T14:26:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8494"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T19:26:01","slug":"life-outside-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/life-outside-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Outside the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realmacsoftware.com\/blog\/life-outside-the-mac-app-store\">Dan Counsell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/realmacsoftware.com\/blog\/life-outside-the-mac-app-store\"><p>It&rsquo;s been 4 years and throughout all this time we've continued to sell <a href=\"http:\/\/realmacsoftware.com\/rapidweaver\">RapidWeaver<\/a> in and out of the Mac App Store. I expected direct sales to trail off as the years went on. I kept thinking it was about to happen&#8230; but it never did. In fact, most days the direct version of RapidWeaver continues to outsell the Mac App Store version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what I&rsquo;m seeing as well. Given that the &ldquo;storeagent: Unsigned app&rdquo; <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/code-signing-and-mavericks\/\">Mavericks bug<\/a> that can prevent Mac App Store apps from launching is still present in 10.9.2, I&rsquo;m glad that Apple&rsquo;s store is not my exclusive sales channel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Counsell: It&rsquo;s been 4 years and throughout all this time we've continued to sell RapidWeaver in and out of the Mac App Store. I expected direct sales to trail off as the years went on. I kept thinking it was about to happen&#8230; but it never did. In fact, most days the direct version [&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":[101,466,30,32,39,475,782],"class_list":["post-8494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-codesigning","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-mavericks","tag-rapidweaver"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494","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=8494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}