Hi Josh, In a lot of cases, yes. If the developer has the application available to circumvent the App Store, at least on OS X, you can get it via Mac-Update if they have it listed. Even if they don't, though, you can also try to Google it.
In the case of Sandboxing, as someone who has worked with it, under iOS Sandboxing refers to a two-step process which basically takes away most capabilities for interacting with the system. Then, by use of Entitlements, developers can restore functionality to parts of iOS the application requires if needed. For OS X, this works a bit differently but the concept is the same. The Sandboxing access Control technology will allow the application in question to grant the permissions to access other parts of the system, but no more than what is granted. However, where this differs from iOS is because drag and drop and Open and Save dialogs can permit transparent access bypassing the Sandboxing restrictions, in order to use files within other directories, such as personal data. What's great about his approach, actually, is that the data the application needs to access is stored within its own container, thus isolating the damage in case of malicious code. Only files and resources within the app's sandbox will be affected. Of course, it can limit you because it won't provide free access to anything unless it is permitted, and this includes directories unless using two particular classes which I won't go into here. However, these two classes will not allow the user to use any features bey ond what the classes permit. In this case, the Open and Save dialogs. That's the short version. it gets a lot more complicated, but that'd be too boring. Some developers pull their apps because it may not be possible to adopt a particular feature to coexist with App Sandboxing design principals, and some haven't found an intuitive method to rewrite the feature to take advantage of it seamlessly. Regards, Nicolai On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:03 AM, josh gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there. A couple questions. Will apps no longer in the app store > still be available through macupdate.com? Secondly, what are > sandboxing restrictions? Thanks! > > On 6/26/12, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: >> Hi Sarah, >> >> I'm not sure what you want. If you just want a description of the app, you >> can find that for almost every app at the MacUpdate site. If you mean that >> you want a web site that will tell you that a particular app is no longer in >> the App Store, but that it once was there, then you can do a Google search >> on the name of the app, and "Appshopper" to find their Mac app listings. If >> the app was just pulled, then the AppShopper listing will still show as >> being current, and you can copy it. If a day or so has passed, the >> AppShopper page will say "App removed from site", but you'll still be able >> to navigate down the page and read the old description. When apps get >> pulled from the iOS App Store, this is usually the way that I check they're >> gone. Also, I can still navigate to the "App Activitiy" heading and check >> the last time stamps for a sense of when the app was last around. Of >> course, in the case of some long gone apps, such as the i-map-u that Geoff >> recalls would give your nea >> rest intersection, and which was available from 2008 through to early 2011 >> (maybe January or February), the last activity that shows is the price drop >> back to $0.99 in April of 2009! >> >> Which app disappeared? A lot of apps are pulling out of the Mac App store >> with the new sandboxing restrictions. For example, TextExpander has a new >> version 4.0 release that just came out, but which isn't in the Mac App store >> because it doesn't meet the restrictions. The new features make it easier >> to generate template letters (where you fill in a name, or personalize small >> sections of a form reply), but because its snippet substitutions will work >> in any app, unlike the more limited text expansion that is available in Lion >> for Mail and a few frequently used applications, it doesn't meet the >> sandboxing restrictions and won't appear in the Mac App Store. I think this >> may apply to apps like Panic's Transmit, as well. (My Transmit license was >> an upgrade, done outside of the App Store.) >> >> See, for example, the MacWorld article from last week: "TextExpander 4 adds >> features, but must leave the Mac App Store": >> http://www.macworld.com/article/1167373/textexpander_4_adds_features_leaves_mac_app_store.html >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >>> Hello to all. I just recorded a podcast and was prepping to do the show >>> notes when to my horror i realized through searching the app was no longer >>> in the app store. Is there a site i can link to that at least gives the >>> descriptions? i don't think you can download apps that are not there >>> anymore so i won't even go there but any help would be appreciated. >>> Thanks. >>> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> > > > -- > Ways to Connect with me: > > facebook.com/evercuriousmasteryodo > > twitter.com/joshg93 > Skype: joshgregory93 > FaceTime, iMessage and iChat: joshkar...@gmail.com > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
