Comments on: Mac App Store: move along, nothing to see here

By: Ahmed Elkiki

Ahmed Elkiki — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:22:45 +0000

Hi,

I have a Mac osx snow leopard, 10.6.8, whenever I try to access the App Store it remains blank for a while and then gives the below message

One Moment Please.
Connecting to the iTunes Store.
Loading

If iTunes doesn’t open, click the iTunes application icon in your Dock or Windows Task Bar. To download iTunes, please click here.

This message just remains forever and the beach ball keeps spinning. Moreover, when I go to store>sign in and i enter my apple ID and password the beach ball keeps spinning forever and nothing happens.

I desperate and devastated, can anyone help with that?

By: GregN

GregN — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:11:12 +0000

This sounds a lot like Casper’s Self-Service portal and Munki’s Optional Software — in both cases the admin makes certain software items available, and end-users (even without admin rights) can install the software themselves.

By: Antony Awaida

Antony Awaida — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:09:00 +0000

Hi Greg:

We are developing a solution that would enable admins to create an enterprise app store and therefore non-admin would be able install vetted/curated apps. It would be great if we could have a conversation to get your feedback … No, no sales pitch…. If anyone else is interested, please contact me at the email below. Thanks.

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By: Wouter

Wouter — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:59:11 +0000

Yeah I am also very interested to know how they will handle updates for Applications installed in ~Applications

By: PhS

PhS — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:55:52 +0000

It would have been really sweet that Apple enables the possibility for non admin users to install app in ~/Applications … a bit like some System Preference files that ask you for a “this user only” or “all users”

Do you guys believe this could happen in the future ?

Rque: Strangely enough App Store detected my Transmit install (which is in my ~/Applications)… I hope they release an update soon , curious to see how it will go

By: deeliberti

deeliberti — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:47:46 +0000

where MCX is not used to manage I think remove the app executability could be a good idea…

By: GregN

GregN — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:12:14 +0000

I simply mean using MCX to manage which applications are allowed to launch, and disallowing the App Store.app.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:56:09 +0000

Greg, you mention using MCX to disable usage of the Mac App Store, which of course makes the most sense. But you don’t mention what setting, if any, could be used to do this. Do you happen to know what MCX key names exist for it, or is ti too early to tell at this point?
Looking in the com.apple.appstore.plist file doesn’t reveal anything especially interesting.

By: Ian Walker-Smith

Ian Walker-Smith — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:43:21 +0000

I had a thought; could the app store be _corrupted_ to be used as an enterprise self service app store for within organizations… Probably not in this iteration but would be great if you could use it that way.