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As a Mac developer who's also affected by the mandatory sandboxing requirement, I fully agree. One of our applications, Trickster, doesn't work sandboxed (being a system utility) as is and we're in this situation where we have customers on the Mac App Store who can't receive updates anymore. Needless to say, neither us nor our customers (who'll mostly blame us) are happy about this.

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Consider inspecting the MAS receipt and issuing them a license in your own scheme if you are leaving. At least then you get to keep your customers.

Same. I develop Space Gremlin and I've been sitting on an update now for 6 months because any new submission will severely cripple the usability of the current app. I really wish there was a good alternative like Steam that I could sell on instead.

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