xmasguy Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 The title explains it all...are there plans to put Storyist in the Mac App Store? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 Hi Mikey, The title explains it all...are there plans to put Storyist in the Mac App Store? I'd like to make Storyist available in the Mac App Store eventually. At the moment, Storyist uses some private APIs to work around OS bugs, so it wouldn't be approved as-is. Most of the bugs are pre-Snow Leopard, but there are two in Snow Leopard that I need to find other solutions for. -Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmmcwhirt Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 My understanding is that this is not an issue with the Mac App Store as long as it still uses the standard apple package installer, and doesn't use the location based API for certain things. Unfortunately I'm no longer working for a company with access to the documentation so I can not read the details but there are a few apps already that use OpenGL directly and not via the apple API interface to it as well as a few other non-apple APIs. For me if it's not in the App Store I can't buy it which is why I don't own Storyist and am leaning towards scenarist even though it's missing a ton of Storyist's features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hi bmmcwhirt, My understanding is that this is not an issue with the Mac App Store as long as it still uses the standard apple package installer, and doesn't use the location based API for certain things. Unfortunately I'm no longer working for a company with access to the documentation so I can not read the details but there are a few apps already that use OpenGL directly and not via the apple API interface to it as well as a few other non-apple APIs. For me if it's not in the App Store I can't buy it which is why I don't own Storyist and am leaning towards scenarist even though it's missing a ton of Storyist's features. As both an OS X and an iOS developer, I'm quite sure Storyist wouldn't be approved in its current state due to the private API it uses, even though the purpose for using them is to work around OS X bugs. There are a number of popular Mac apps in this situation, which is why you don't see them in the Mac App Store yet. WWDC is coming up, however, and I do plan to talk to some of the Apple engineers about other work-arounds. I would like to offer Storyist on the Mac App Store eventually. That said, please realize that if you do buy from the Mac App Store, you will only be able to get updates through the Mac App Store, and you won't be able to get updates from the developer. This is often not a problem, but there have been several high-profile cases (Panic's experience with Transmit is one) where updates were rejected by Apple even after they approved the original app. -Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayawolf Posted August 4, 2013 Report Share Posted August 4, 2013 Hi Steve, It's been a couple of years since this thread was posted. Is there a new update to this question? I, too, am curious about getting the Storyist software from the Mac app store. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 Been the better part of another year yet. If the answer's "no" that's not too much of a bother for me, I'd mostly just like to know what to expect. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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