Developing and distributing OS X apps has long preceded the App Store, though. Actually, some of the apps that I am very loyal to still don&#x27;t distribute on the App Store or they offer both options.<p>I still have a very popular OS X app and I don&#x27;t distribute it through the App Store at all (primarily because it works on OS X, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD). This is a bit of freedom for me as I can do interesting things to gain functionality that the App Store would deny.