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Apple should allow Firefox and Chrome into the Mac App Store as they are, and have the updating done from there. That’s the solution.

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and Apple take 30% of transactions you make in Chrome and FF? Desktop is less of a walled garden than ios. i hope it stays that way.

They could make an exception, for the larger benefits to their platform. Custom updaters are helping no one, and it seems like the spark has left Sparkle (the last I looked, sparkle 1 was for an era long past, and sparkle 2 was still incomplete).

On an alternate timeline, Apple could have allowed software vendors to hook into the old software update application, and pull in updates through that mechanism, in addition to the first party updates.

The Mac App Store is for well behaving apps haha. For some definition of well behaving, anyways. This compromise is actually great -- the MAS is available to those who want to live in a cozy little walled garden of perfection. Those who are willing to compromise on security in exchange for apps that have free run of the system are welcome to do that also.

The Mac App Store is really for scamware, it seems like…

Now that I haven’t heard!

This argument sounds eerily familiar, but I can't quite place it...

I know I can’t because the iOS App Store argument is “and you can’t have it any other way.” On macOS for as long as you can have it other ways I’m totally ok with it.

No, I was just being sarcastic because the double-standard mystifies me. I completely agree.

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