The thing that&#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.<p>It&#x27;s super slow, constantly hangs, and is just such a bad experience from the consumer side that it undermines the (very real) benefits of having a centralized store of applications you&#x27;ve purchased and installed.<p>It&#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&#x27;t care about trampling developers to get it that way, but the actual customer facing software that is the App Store is a shockingly bad piece of software.