The Mac App Store is now slightly less hated by developers

Jun15

by Sindy Cator on June 15, 2017 at 9:51 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

In the wake of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, the folks at MacPaw have released the 2017 version of its Mac developer survey. Spoiler alert: MacOS devs still don’t love the Mac App Store. Here’s the most eye-catching figure: more developers are embracing the Mac App Store. Last year, 35-percent of developers sold their applications exclusively out of Apple’s ecosystem. This year, that dropped to 30-percent. While the number of people solely flogging their code through the Mac App Store has remained constant (23-percent in both 2016 and 2017), the number of people using both channels has increased by 5-percent.…