![]() ![]() Developers, who had their apps already available on the Mac App Store, found themselves forced to bolt Sandboxing onto apps with previously-defined feature sets that, in some cases, were incompatible with Apple’s requirements. We have covered both extensively here on MacStories: Gatekeeper, a new user feature of Mountain Lion, was given an entire section in my 10.8 review Sandboxing, after two delays (from November 2011 to March 2012, then extended to June 1, 2012), has proven to be quite difficult to implement for developers of fairly complex Mac apps already approved on the App Store. Sandboxing and GatekeeperĢ012 saw the official rollout of two new OS X technologies that have profoundly affected third-party software: Sandboxing and Gatekeeper. I’d also point out how Mac App Store-specific numbers were absent from the “state of the business” introduction at Apple’s most two recent media events. In terms of numbers, it’s worth remembering that the majority of the 4.9 million Macs Apple sold in Q4 2012 ( Q3 2012 numbers were reported the day before the release of 10.8) are running Mountain Lion out of the box. Unlike Lion, Apple didn’t offer a physical copy of the operating system. Mountain Lion was, obviously, released exclusively on the Mac App Store. For comparison, OS X Lion sold 1 million copies in the first 24 hours over six million copies by October 2011 and at WWDC 2012 in June, Apple announced 26 million copies of Lion had been shipped.Īpple CEO Tim Cook stated on multiple occasions that Mountain Lion is Apple’s “most successful” OS X release to date. When sharing on Twitter, the OS X tweet sheet displays the application’s icon alongside an iTunes short URL.Ĭustomers’ response to Mountain Lion was, according to Apple, fantastic: Apple sold 3 million units of the operating systems in the first four days (July 25–29, 2012), and, at its iPhone 5 media event on September 12th, announced they had sold 7 million units. And alongside multi-touch improvements, Mountain Lion also made the Mac App Store more sharing-friendly as part of the OS’ new and integrated “share sheets”:Įvery app’s menu now comes with buttons to share on Twitter and Messages, and Facebook will be enabled as an option later this year. First and foremost, with 10.8 Apple unified the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store: users can still launch the Software Update checker from System Preferences, but now both system and third-party app updates happen through the Mac App Store. In July, the company released Mountain Lion, an evolution of OS X Lion – launched just 12 months before – further bridging the gap between the end user experience on iOS devices and Macs.Īs I detailed in my review, Mountain Lion brought important improvements and changes to the Mac App Store. The past year saw Apple “doubling down” on iCloud integration with its mobile and desktop operating systems. The Mac App Store is not without its flaws, and questions loom ahead as to whether Apple will lock down the system eventually - allowing customers to only install apps from the Mac App Store (as also recently suggested by Adam Engst on Macworld) - and cause a general confusion among developers and consumers as sandboxing is enforced and apps will need to comply to a stricter set of rules to be accepted on the Mac App Store.Ī full year after that post, I believe it’s safe to say one word epitomizes Apple’s 2012 with the Mac App Store: uncertainity. Reorder and delete pages.Last year, I concluded my retrospective of one year of Mac App Store wondering whether 2012 would see more developers struggling to get their Mac apps approved for sale. PDFpen allows users to easily edit PDF’s. ![]()
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