Developers are concerned Apple’s limited list of entitlements will make their applications incompatible with the future of the Mac. They have a reason to be concerned. It may not happen in Mac OS 10.8 or even 10.9 but someday soon the filesystem will be gone. Sandboxing is only the first step. The operating system on today’s Macs can already be restored from the net. The applications we use everyday can be already downloaded from the web. And very soon the data we use across all of our computers will be backed up in the cloud. Disk Utilities, Anti-virus software, and filesystem browsers will all be ill relevant. Computers will be more reliable, easier to use, and everything will be downloadable from the internet. Application and not the filesystem are the future of computing. You may not agree with this vision of the future, but mark my words it is coming. The sandbox is only the first step.
