Why is this news?
A lot of desktop applications do this. The Spotify client used to do it to enable play/pause controls from any webpage. Dropbox also definitely used the same method for single sign on, maybe still does, I don't use it anymore.
A lot of desktop applications do this. The Spotify client used to do it to enable play/pause controls from any webpage. Dropbox also definitely used the same method for single sign on, maybe still does, I don't use it anymore.
I like that when I remove an app installed via App Store on Mac, I know it’s actually gone. It seems like this was part of the thing that people couldn’t stand about Windows — spyware coming along for the ride that is not removed when you delete the main app.
Macs are general purpose computers and it would be absolutely inappropriate for Apple to try to prevent users from running software on them.
At least the Bluejeans people have this page. The Zoom people did the same thing (possibly worse), but it was undocumented.
I guess I'm losing touch with the user-hostile "innovations" coming out of the valley.