On: Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing

[jonhendry]

It means apps with access to iCloud get some extra scrutiny, helping prevent malware tampering with iCloud.

I suppose notifications could be abused as well (perhaps some kind of notification-phising, where an app posts notifications that appear to be from something else?)

[CJefferson → jonhendry]

What it means is that you can't release an app that uses iCloud anywhere else.

No releasing on your homepage. No mailing out to people. No humble indie bundle. No steam. No developing an app with paying apple $99/year.

[jonhendry → CJefferson]

Well, yeah. The implication being that Apple doesn't want your filthy unexamined app to be touching iCloud's servers.

[c1sc0 → CJefferson]

I think you mean 'without'