Developers have hooked into macOS without using a supported API to provide some feature or function. Just to see if the app works and isn't using private API or breaching privacy.ĭevelopers using unsupported APIs has been problematic for decades. He is talking about Apple testing, but that is perfunctory. Long live sandboxing!Untested rubbish? What is this based on, the blog post didn't mention anything about testing? Rogue Amoeba are a solid developer with a great track record, and they definitely test their software. So they want us to buy untested rubbish so then can alter it as they see fit with every update? No, thanks. The company's move comes as, separately, new research suggests that software developers are losing interesting in using the Mac App Store.

Mac App Store users of Fission are being offered a complimentary licence to download the new update from Rogue Amoeba directly. 'When you couple the many shortcomings and issues with Apple's restrictive polices that preclude most of our software from appearing there,' he continued, 'the Mac App Store is clearly a poor fit for us.'įission 2.71, Piezo, Audio Hijack, and more, are now exclusively available on the company's site.

' despite a decade of feedback from countless developers and users, Apple has made scant few changes and the store remains beset with issues,' wrote Paul Kafasis, co-founder and CEO, in a blog post. The company removed Piezo from the Mac App Store in 2016, and now says that there were issues with Apple's store that were already long unresolved, and have even now yet to be addressed. The company's best-known app, Audio Hijack, has never been on the Store, but it has previously also had the audio recorder Piezo available. Rogue Amoeba has launched its updated Fission 2.7.1 audio editor for Mac, but at the same time removed it from the Mac App Store.

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