It’s overwhelmingly the case that app stores for desktop and laptop computers have flopped. Nowhere is that more true than on MacOS. If you speak to Oleksandr Kosovan, CEO and founder of MacPaw, the reasons why become immediately obvious. The MacOS App Store, Oleksandr explained, is woefully mismanaged. It has bloated to over 30,000 apps. Many of these are of a poor quality, and many of which (appropriately called “dead apps”) have long ceased to be maintained. Worse, many apps (especially developer tools and pro apps) cannot be sold through the App Store, due to Apple’s sandboxing policy. In theory, this exists to…

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