Goodbye Mac App Store
I have said it before.<p>I pulled my app from the mac app store after 5-6 months and haven&#x27;t looked back since.<p>My sales were quite good but the sandboxing made it impossible to do any real innovation on the OS X platform which my app is trying to do. Getting any help from support was impossible and so I decided to sell from my own website instead.<p>Whether pulling it was the reason why my sales have gone up I don&#x27;t think there is a way to validate but it had no negative effect on my sales quite the contrary.<p>I was in the top 10 on the app store for a while and it had no effect on my sale. Only getting featured means anything for your sales which makes me conclude that the mac app store add no value what so ever to either user nor developer.<p>Apple should shut it down and simply focus on featuring apps they think are worth featuring instead of creating an app store which create a million apps with no value to anyone not even the developers yet they still create a lot of noise.<p>If not that they they should at least allow the user to decide whether they want to give access for the specific app to things outside the sandbox.