[marquis]

Any application that works with media, e.g. audio, video, needs really good access to the filesystem. I can't see Avid Media Composer for example ever conforming to the sandbox idea. What is Apple going to do about that in the long term? Give up on their platform for professional use?

[cpr]

Apps that need access to arbitrary files can ask for it when setting up their sandbox credentials. Apple has to approve that, of course, but that's the cost of "safety."

I'm with the majority here who fear this new feature...

[nirvana]

Then you don't understand the sandbox. There's nothing to stop something like Avid Media Composer being able to access your video.

But it doesn't need to access your address book.

[marquis]

I was of the understanding that the sandboxed app needed permission to access certain files that weren't created by them, I'll read the documentation more thoroughly. Perhaps a better example are apps that scan you drive to tell you what your file system is full off (to free up space for example). This type of thing is extremely useful, and would seem to violate the sandbox idea?

[scott_s]

My understanding is that it's not permission from the user, but permission from Apple. If you need to do something outside of the sandbox, you need to go through their API calls. And when you submit your application, you need to justify each out-of-sandbox-API call you make.