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Apple To Require Sandboxing For Mac App Store Apps
mario_grgic writes "And so it begins: Apple will require that all Mac apps submitted to the Mac App store stick to strict sandboxing requirements. This means you must ask Apple for read or read/write entitlements for additional folders outside your Application Support folder before your app is approved. There are also restrictions on direct hardware access, communication to processes your app did not start, or even something simple as taking a screenshot. All that is needed after this to turn your Mac into an appliance is to only allow app installations from App Store."
People might get sick of the restrictive nature of Apple products.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
> Eventually you will discover that some "thinking and learning" is entirely pointless - like mastering some piece of software
A computer is a general purpose tool for solving a wide array of problems.
Every program quite literally makes it an entirely different tool.
If you aren't interested in this, why bother having ANY computer at all?
If you can't figure out how some "pointless burden" might improve your life then you have no imagination. You're just another idiot. Any "time you save" on not being burdened by software will likely never be put to any use. You'll probably just end up watching Jersey Shore reruns.
A general attitude of mindlessness likely means that you treat the rest of your life the same way.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.