<story><title>Leaving the Mac App Store</title><url>http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>relaxatorium</author><text>The thing that&amp;#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#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&amp;#x27;ve purchased and installed.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&amp;#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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>to3m</author><text>I dread ever having to run the Mac App Store to get an upgrade. (Luckily, I only have to do it for Xcode and OS X.)&lt;p&gt;It asks for my password literally every 15-20 seconds. Once I tell it to upgrade everything, it selects only one upgrade, and keeps telling me there are upgrades. While the upgrades are going, it keeps asking me for my password.&lt;p&gt;At that point I go off and watch TV. When I come back, it&amp;#x27;s actually downloaded all of the upgrades, and there&amp;#x27;s a message about how there are more. After I&amp;#x27;ve entered my password a few more times, it tells me I&amp;#x27;m up to date.&lt;p&gt;Then it asks me whether I&amp;#x27;d like to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;I guess once their work experience students get bored working on Xcode they put them on this instead.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaving the Mac App Store</title><url>http://blog.sketchapp.com/post/134322691555/leaving-the-mac-app-store</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>relaxatorium</author><text>The thing that&amp;#x27;s craziest about the MAS to me is how bad the actual application is.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#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&amp;#x27;ve purchased and installed.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;d be one thing (and a fairly standard Apple move) if the customer experience was good and they didn&amp;#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.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oneeyedpigeon</author><text>Great point. The &amp;quot;updates&amp;quot; tab is a complete mindf&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;k, you can&amp;#x27;t filter by OS version (which the app presumably knows, yet chooses to ignore) so you can spend lots of time investigating an app, only to find out at the last moment that you can&amp;#x27;t actually run it, and - a personal bugbear of mine - &lt;i&gt;none&lt;/i&gt; of the text is proper selectable text, so it can&amp;#x27;t be copied.&lt;p&gt;And tell me I&amp;#x27;m not the only person in the world who has to manage several Apple IDs ...</text></comment>