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It's really fine. The problem is not the app itself, not by a long shot.
by draw_down 11y ago
It's really fine. The problem is not the app itself, not by a long shot.
- JonathonW 11y agoNot really. The big problems that are driving developers away are policy problems (mandatory sandboxing that's inadequate for the kinds of apps people want to write on OSX, lack of upgrade pricing, long delays in app/update approval, etc.), but, as a user, I've been seeing issues with the app itself for a long time. Things are particularly shaky around app updates: stuff like clicking an update button and nothing happens, or clicking an update button and nothing appears to happen but the update starts downloading anyways and a progress bar doesn't show until several minutes into a download, or Xcode updates that take (quite literally) several hours to install (after downloading) if you're not running on an SSD. These are things that got ironed out years ago on iOS, but I've not seen major improvements to the Mac App Store app since it was released nearly five years ago. If anything, it's gotten worse with subsequent releases of OSX.
- ohitsdom 11y agoIt's not fine- the app is an awful user experience. I get that people disagree with the App Store policies, but at least there's some argument to be made that it's for the best of the users. There's absolutely no defending how bad of an app the App Store is...
- themartorana 11y agoI've always held that Apple is brilliant at OS and software development... development - see OSX and IOS and libdispatch and ARC and Swift and Objective-C and so on and so on... And terrible at using those tools to build software - see almost every app I can't uninstall on my iPhone, iTunes, Mac App Store, and so on, and so on... (Yes, not all of these things were invented there, but Apple became the steward of them.)