The &quot;store&quot; was really great for small&#x2F;solo developers to release an application. It&#x27;s really expensive to setup your own server to distribute an application. It&#x27;s also really annoying to have to patch your apps without a store.<p>What&#x27;s changed is that there are lots of open source options for distribution and patching, so developers need a &quot;store&quot; less and less.