>>> The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists
>>> only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using
>>> URLs stored into the restorable state archive, but even that won't work
>>> long term). Â Thus keeping references to files is essentially impossible
>>> (long term) in a sandboxed application - bizarre.
>> 
>> One can only hope that this is because App Sandbox is currently not fully 
>> baked.
>> 
>> Otherwise, how would something like Xcode work sandboxed? Â An .xcodeproj 
>> contains zillions of relative paths to files that the user, at some point in 
>> the past, explicitly added.
>> 
>> Either App Sandbox is unfinished, or Apple is taking us towards of word of 
>> iFart-type apps only.
> 
> +1 amen to that

That would make a good SAT analogy question.

"Mac OS X Lion" is to "Jumping the shark"

as

"App Sandbox" is to "iFart"


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