Less Risk of Losing Your Software Investments: I bought Divvy via the Mac App Store. Some developers intentionally throttle down their direct update schedule to match Apple’s delays and avoid customer confusion, but that’s the developer’s decision. More and Faster Updates: Different developers follow different update schedules, but typically direct apps get updated more often and with less latency than Mac App Store apps. It appears sandboxed Core Data Mac apps will need to switch to packages for a long-term solution, changing file formats for no good reason (and packages are less convenient for data sharing than flat files). One work-around is to disable disk-based journaling, increasing the risk of data corruption. There’s lots more.īetter Data Integrity: Document-based Core Data apps are incompatible with Sandboxing. More features: Non-sandboxed BBEdit can directly edit files that require administrator privileges, non-sandboxed OmniFocus can automatically determine the selected document in the Finder when creating a clipping. Here are some reasons why it’s preferable to buy non-sandboxed apps directly from developers:īetter App User Experience: Non-sandboxed apps can auto-navigate the user to correct folders in Open/Save panels, run user-written AppleScripts, control iTunes* and install PDF Services automatically. Since the launch of the Mac App Store, a common question potential customers ask developers is “Should I buy your app directly or through the Mac App Store?”ĭevelopers have been remarkably cagey, mostly replying with the non-answer “choose whichever is better for you”.įortunately Apple now only accepts sandboxed Mac apps, clarifying the situation: customers should buy Mac apps directly unless there’s a good reason not to.
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