The Mac App Store has multiple reasons for existing, but the whole gestalt of it is a mixed bag with both blessings and curses. Also the Mac App Store updating

The Mac App Store has multiple reasons for existing, but the whole gestalt of it is a mixed bag with both blessings and curses. Also the Mac App Store updating system is just damned terrible compared to the Sparkle updater. The only advantage it has is that it is centralized, but I have found it to be one of the slowest and buggiest parts of using the Mac App Store.