Reading about all the annoying permission notifications in MacOS Sequoias, I wonder how Apple devs actually experience this. Would they be using tools that would require them to record their screen as part of their job? And if so, are they experiencing any of these monthly notifications?

Might be that they’re using all in-house software for anything that would do this. I hear Apple’s pretty famous for doing so — going as so far as making an iOS app to order from Cafe Macs. And since Apple trusts software from Apple, it might be that they aren’t seeing these notifications nearly as often as their customers, who can’t run such privileged software themselves1.

I guess this is a roundabout way of say that maybe employees from Apple, up and down the org chart, need to run more third-party software on their work machines. That way they can get the full “experience” of using software stuck with throwing up a notification every month to do it’s job.

In any case, I think I’ll hold out on upgrading to MacOS Sequoias for the foreseeable future.

  1. It’s either that, or they are seeing these notifications and are told to just deal with it, which is probably worse. ↩︎