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Interesting. Many people (including me) will choose the Steam version of a game if its available, to get all the niceties of auto-updating, easy reinstalls, a c

by kibibu 14y ago

Interesting. Many people (including me) will choose the Steam version of a game if its available, to get all the niceties of auto-updating, easy reinstalls, a central list of games & achievements, and so on. Shows the difference implementation can make.

ComputerGuru 14y ago
OS X has awesome updates, though. Almost every single OS X app uses Sparkle [0] to check for updates on startup. I feel bad giving the credit to OS X, but Windows has no such prevalent counterpart. 0: http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/
- kalleboo 14y ago
  It's funny too since I actually find Sparkle updates far less intrusive than App Store updates (I'm tired of logging in and out of iTunes over and over and over again).
  - eridius 14y ago
    Why do you log into and out of iTunes? That makes no sense to me.
    - derefr 14y ago
      Having old apps on a different iTunes account than everything else can force this.
- cremnob 14y ago
  Why would you feel bad about it?