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But the iOS store is a tool for discovery and management of software, whereas APT is just a tool for management. I mean, you can do "apt-cache search tetris", b

• marcosdumay 13y ago
  You have a description, that's normally more informative than what pass of as description at least at the Android market, and you can actually search by description. Reviews are not that important when the software distributors are honest. Apt-cache (in fact, aptitude, but there's no difference) is my primary tool for searching for new software. When it fails, I go to Google, but get much less useful results.
• code_duck 13y ago
  That's true, it fills the need for consumer all discovery much better. On the more technical or server admin oriented side, though, apt and it's ilk fill a need that Apple's App Store does not try to… namely, I can go download the something like memcached, PHP or Postgres and all sorts of related libraries and modules and have them installed immediately in. Version configured for my system, integrated with central configuration and init scripts, and updated and tested for security regularly. I was working on setting up my Mac for Python/Flask development last week and installing MySQL resembled installing it on windows... Time consuming and it required reading documentation and searching just to get it to work. You can ameliorate that by installing MacPorts, homebrew or fink but those truly are third party and ridden with dependency problems. They feel like a 2nd rate apt.