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by mrpippy 2417 days ago
Can you point to evidence that Apple is rejecting anything from being notarized? I haven't seen any.

And sandboxing is completely orthogonal to the fine-grained revocation that notarization allows for. A sandboxed app could still be malicious: say, a weather app that asks for access to your Contacts ostensibly to show weather at your friends' location, but also uploads all the Contacts info to a malicious tracking service. With notarization, this app could have its notarization revoked once it's discovered.

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> Can you point to evidence that Apple is rejecting anything from being notarized? I haven't seen any.

Apple is rejecting anything by developers that don't pay them $100 a year, stifling competition in the process.

Apple has a history of conveniently rejecting apps if the rejection is in their financial interest[1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/31/18647249/wwdc-apple-paren...