Poll: Where do you prefer to buy software - in the App Store or the developer?

Wolff Renttssh (Wolf Rentzsch) lifts interesting topic - where to buy software for the Mac. At first glance, everything is simple: Mac App Store. For the user, the benefits are obvious: a single store with a huge range, reviews, and ratings. All purchases - lifelong. The new version comes for free. Developers, of course, can cheat by releasing major version of a separate product, but do so rarely. Plus you can not forget the ease of recovery: buying a new Mac or reinstalling the OS, simply enter the store with her your Apple ID and download previously purchased apps.

However, as it turns out, it is not so simple.

Apple with his MAS is a mediator. And wayward. At any time the guys from Cupertino can change the rules of the game, and to remove from the Mac App Store application. If you paid for it, read the lost money.

Recently, Apple has tightened the requirements for the program by entering the "sandbox." Now all applications must run in an isolated environment. In practice, this means that some part of the program will lose in functionality (eg, a text editor can not edit the files required by the rules Administrator, Omnifocus not be able to automatically identify the selected document in the Finder when a new task) is created, and others may disappear altogether from MAS. Updates for apps purchased outside the MAS, are available much more quickly - do not have the loss of time it takes for Apple censors the study program.