It works fine for me, I don't have to hunt for updates to all sorts of apps, pay only one company and have some extra security from the sandbox. Lots of awesom

It works fine for me, I don't have to hunt for updates to all sorts of apps, pay only one company and have some extra security from the sandbox. Lots of awesome apps are available on the store. I don't want to allow any app free access to the file system. And anyway, developers have found creative solutions to this problem also. E.g: by asking the user to open the target location from the app they can circumvent the protection. The AppStore has its negative sides too: apps can disappear and be replaced by v2, forcing one to pay again and again.