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MplayerX Leaving Mac App Store

Posted by timothy on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:39PM from the kicked-out-of-the-hothouse dept.

New submitter technonono writes "MplayerX, a popular and free video player app on Mac OSX, is now leaving Mac App Store 'after arguing with Apple for three months.' The developer claims that Apple's sandboxing policies would strip the app into 'another lame Quicktime X,' which is unacceptable. The app is releasing updates on its own site, where users who bought it from the App Store would most likely never notice them. The situation was 'foretold' by Marco Arment, at least for one app."

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Re:Is this a genuine case? by ModernGeek · 2012-08-17 15:11 · Score: 5, Informative

I am assuming that the application cannot access the file system unless a file is within the applications sandbox, or opened through the operating systems open file API.

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