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Most of the apps on my Mac are from the App Store and I wish all of them were. The Mac App Store is not a failure from the user side, it's where users would lo
by Razengan 7y ago
Most of the apps on my Mac are from the App Store and I wish all of them were.
The Mac App Store is not a failure from the user side, it's where users would look first. Nobody wants to have to go to different websites/repositories every N days to update all of their apps/drivers, or put up with spam from 10 different update notification mechanisms. I still remember that hell from barely 12 years ago. Why do you think gamers flocked to Steam?
As a developer, it's more of a failure of Apple's dismal documentation; I -want- my product to be a nicely sandboxed, well-behaved citizen that only accesses exactly just what it needs, but the state of macOS API documentation was too grim to learn how to do that the last time I tried (like "security bookmarks" and "file providers" from a relatively-simple Swift app).
- chacha2 7y agoYou don't need a walled garden for that, a unified update api would suffice.
- paulryanrogers 7y agoSo much this. Linux distros with popular package managers offer official and 3rd party sources through one API. It's a dream compared to Windows and Mac IMO
- wsc981 7y agoHomebrew on macOS is nice though, both for installing tools as well as apps (homebrew cask [0]). --- [0]: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/ https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/