I agree to the extent that I&#x27;d also very much prefer if all apps that fit the security model of the mac app store would be distributed through it, I hate it that almost every program on my machine seems to have its own way of updating itself (not to mention the initial download&#x2F;install).<p>I do think Apple really is to blame here though, the MAS is frankly a big pile of junk, for users, but in particular for developers. It looks like they just launched it and called it a day, the interface is slow, clunky, it doesn&#x27;t work properly if you have multiple accounts (and there&#x27;s no way to merge them), updates often fail to download, searching is a mess etc. This is all just user-level complaints, apparently for developers things are even worse if you read around. Over the last year or two almost any app I initially installed through the MAS appears to have moved away from it...