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Milen Dzhumerov, a software developer for OS X and iOS, has posted a concise breakdown of the problems with the Mac App Store. He says the lack of support for trial software and upgrades drives developers away by preventing them from making a living. Forced sandboxing kills many applications before they get started, and the review system isn't helpful to anyone. Dzhumerov says all of these factors, and Apple's unwillingness to address them, are leading to the slow but steady erosion of quality software in the Mac App Store.

"The relationship between consumers and developers is symbiotic, one cannot exist without the other. If the Mac App Store is a hostile environment for developers, we are going to end up in a situation where, either software will not be supported anymore or even worse, won't be made at all. And the result is the same the other way around – if there are no consumers, businesses would go bankrupt and no software will be made. The Mac App Store can be work in ways that's beneficial to both developers and consumers alike, it doesn't have to be one or the other. If the MAS is harmful to either developers or consumers, in the long term, it will be inevitably harmful to both."

DGDanforth wrote:Question:
.exe or .odc?

Someone not familiar with BlackBox Component Pascal may still be interested in obtaining an App
that comes as an .exe file or possibly .dll file.

Ivan Denisov wrote: It is not very secure to distribute users exe files, because somebody can post the virus. I think that we should prepare detailed instruction for installing components. And for version 1.8 I suggest to make simple components manager.

DGDanforth wrote:

Ivan Denisov wrote: It is not very secure to distribute users exe files, because somebody can post the virus. I think that we should prepare detailed instruction for installing components. And for version 1.8 I suggest to make simple components manager.

How does a components manager avoid the virus issue?
Please say more.