John Gruber
Blizzard gets a hard-coded exemption to the iOS and MacOS sandboxes? Yikes:https://storify.com/gruber/blizzard-exemption-to-ios-and-macos-sandbox …
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Update on the Blizzard/sandbox thing, from a birdie familiar with the matter: Blizzard’s updater had a crasher. Apple created workaround.
Practically speaking, all sandboxing rules still apply to Blizzard apps; workaround doesn’t allow operations that other apps can’t do too.
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And Blizzard has fixed their updater, so the workaround shouldn’t be needed in next update.
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My takeaway is that Apple will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid crashers in super-popular apps, even when it’s entirely the app’s fault.
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@gruber might be interesting if the birdies can shed light on the criteria for the apps they can't break. - View other replies
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@chronic My guess is there are no criteria — it’s a “We know them when we see them” thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it …
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@gruber What’s the buzz here? I haven’t seen this in the news. -
@joshjagdfeld No buzz. It’s a very curious find, but ultimately a non-story.
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@gruber Windows has something called “shims” to lie to apps to work around things like this. Seems like a similar case.
Will Strafach
Josh Jagdfeld
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