John Siracusa
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44 recordings
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 17 Sep
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And even more new ones that I discovered as I submitted builds and they kept rejecting me and I had to remove entitlements, remove entitlements, remove entitlements.
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They don't like me.
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I've been rejected more on this app so far.
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It's not even released just on test flight builds.
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Anyway, get something that will go up on the Mac App Store.
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Then also make from the exact same Xcode project another version of this same app that
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with all the forbidden features and forbidden entitlements
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all that good stuff and make that a free download on my website.
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But the trick is that that free download will not run unless you have purchased my Mac App Store app.
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I mean, I'm sure Apple hates this, but like as far as they're concerned, the app on the App Store is perfectly legitimate.
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It does only the things that it's allowed to do.
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And that's it.
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I'm not going to link.
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to the obviously from the app I can't tell anybody from my Mac App Store app I can't say hey go get that I can't say mention it I can't link to it I can't acknowledge that it exists I can't do anything and the other thing is my Mac App Store app has no idea that other app exists doesn't communicate with it doesn't look for it doesn't do anything just has to be there on the disk it's like Mac App Store receipt you know the cryptographic receipt that like it happens when you buy an app like a paid up front app
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Meanwhile, if you were to wander over to my website and find this other unsandboxed app that is free for anyone to download but is entirely useless unless you have installed this app from the Mac App Store, just run that app and that app
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can quit apps, can resolve aliases to servers, can do dock materials, can do all of the fancy features that you'd always want to do but couldn't do before.
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And so this is my first foray into non-sandboxed Mac app development.
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And once I knew I could do that, I basically made, I'm working on making this app not a dock replacement, but I'm doing stuff that I didn't even think was possible.
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Like I've always said, people always say, hey, switch glass should show the notification badges that are in the dock.
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There's no API for that.
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