The shortage of permissions, or “entitlements” in sandbox lingo, has always been at the root of my concerns. I’ve written a few rants about the Application Sandbox, culminating in my February 2012 piece imploring Apple to “Fix the Sandbox.” Slowly but surely, they are improving the technology that drives the sandboxing features of Mac OS X, but by June 1, it appears that many classes of application will still be “unsandboxable” under the current permissions model supplied by Apple.

That’s only a few weeks away, and comes just ahead of Apple’s annual developer conference. The deadline for adopting the sandbox has slipped several times, but it currently rests at June 1, 2012. If you’ve been following the debate surrounding Apple’s Application Sandbox, you know that many developers are concerned about the implications for existing apps of adopting the sandbox.Īpple has been threatening for almost a year that apps for sale in the Mac App Store will need to embrace the Application Sandbox, or else further updates to the apps will not be accepted.

Apple sandbox coloring app