From: "milton_aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 3, 2011 1:05:50 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: OT: SandBox and Demise of Desktop Macs


Hi Folks;


If your planning on buying a new desktop Mac, you might want to do it sooner than later:


http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/10/31/plummeting.sales.trigger.reconsideration/


So if your a video editor or a heavy Photoshop processor or stack and align a lot of images, your hardware options may be limited past 2012.


And one of the reasons I refuse to use the App Store is because of Apples 30% take off the top (which is 6 times what it costs me to do a sale via PayPal) and to avoid these sorts of Draconian policies enforced by Apple going forward:


http://lacquer.fi/pauli/blog/2011/11/why-the-mac-app-sandbox-makes-me-sad/


No App that requires 3rd party drivers to uses hardware support will work if it's sold on the Apple Store in 2012. And it's just a question of time before Apple take steps to force all Mac Apps to be sold via their store - just like their iDevices do today.


TTYL..


Milton Aupperle