Honestly I never have seen such piece of crap like "Notarization". One of the Apple's failures ever (if is not the most one).
A nightmare (and not cheap) to deal with it as a developer.
A nightmare (and not cheap) to deal with it as a developer.
And that’s just non-Xcode. If you use Xcode it’s often automatic.
This is not iOS where the App Store is the only way to install an app.
This comment is not an endorsement of any aspect of Apple's business model, I'm just correcting a factual error in your comment.
It was a great step forward, but I don't understand why they made it so complicated with an approval process, when Google did the same thing afterwards and could just say "the first million dollars a year is 15%, after that it's 30%".
The total revenue difference for the different companies is probably negligible.
(or... outside of the App Store you can sign up for a PayPal account and accept payments at a 3% rate instantly)
If you are a small dev with just one developer account, you'll sail through the applicaton process.
If your bar to hit is Linux, you'll never be happy with anything.
Note that this landscape might change in the future. Microsoft is working on Azure Code Signing, which will mean Microsoft themselves manages issuing the certificate, doing the identity verification, etc - the only catch being that they probably don't want to have to deal with any lost keys or improperly stored keys, so they don't let you generate your own cert and you can only sign certs via the API or other integrations. All of this info is available via this talk [2] and it's the only public information available on this service that i've found.
0: https://codesigncert.com/sectigo-ev-code-signing
You can't have read the same article I just read!
XCode notarization does work for many developers, perhaps even the majority! It is a fragile process, though, and the author is not the only one for whom it fails.