I&#x27;m glad to see successful apps exiting The Mac App Store, and I hope others will follow. Unlike its iOS counterpart, which is great in many ways (new app discovery not being one of them), the MAS has unfortunately done more harm than good to the once-thriving indy Mac app-development scene.<p>It offers a low cost of entry, but also encourages &quot;pump-and-dump&quot; development, in which developers are actively (though surely not intentionally) discouraged from updating their apps once they launch.<p>It&#x27;s designed to be the &quot;anti-professional&quot; means of app distribution, and it never reaches any higher.