Back in ye olden days, apps either shipped with their own updater, or shipped with no updater. If my understanding of the history is right, that's how Steam wa

Back in ye olden days, apps either shipped with their own updater, or shipped with no updater. If my understanding of the history is right, that's how Steam was born. A unified update tool for Valve's games. It was pretty cool that all my Valve games were managed in one place! "I wish every company did this!". While it was nice that there was really only one primary place for games (Steam) for a while. And it's really nice when most games can be acquired in one or two places. I think the landscape has changed and "download managers" and their glorified counter part "app stores" are much more common... at least the worst case scenario is what I once wished... "Every company/publisher has their own App Store" Just my two cents.