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'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.