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It's unfortunate that the Mac App Store most likely won't fail in it's current state. There are too many people that don't realize that they are purchasing the

• api 12y ago
  Funny... I both like and hate the app store. I like it when the apps I want are there, mostly because they install with one click and update automatically and I don't have to worry about it. But I hate it as a developer. I've found that such conflicting feelings come up when I'm dealing with a poor solution to a nevertheless real set of problems. I think app stores in general are that -- they are a freedom-restricting, tax-extracting, capability-limiting solution to a set of problems around security, software package management, and quality control that could be solved much more intelligently.
• milen 12y ago
  What's quite interesting is that a few years ago, when you bought from the MAS, you assumed you will always be able to install the software and it will be kept up to date. Nowadays, the unfortunately reality is the opposite - it's very likely the MAS version is seriously lagging behind. What's worse, as you say, is that there's absolutely no indication that some of those apps have been abandoned (apart from the very old Last Update date). The vast majority of consumers will just buy the software and not go researching whether the app they're acquiring has been left collecting dust. And at the end, both consumers and developers lose out.