It's possible that app sandboxing is preventing some of these apps from being updated: If they can't be sandboxed, then they can't get any updates that add new features. In my testing, though, all of these apps still ran just fine-just possibly lacking features and interfaces they'd have if they were updated. But what's not good is that the remaining 39 apps (43%) haven't been updated in at least a year-and of those 39 apps, 21 of them (over half!) haven't been updated in four or more years.ĭigging into those 21 apps reveals that four of them are utilities, five are general use apps, and 12 of them are games.įor the nine utilities and general use apps, not being updated in that many years means those apps aren't taking advantage of any new macOS features, they haven't updated their appearance to match Apple's evolving trends, and they may have new-macOS-related bugs that haven't yet been fixed. Yes, 51 of those 90 apps (57%) have been updated within the last year, and that's good. But it doesn't look quite so good if I examine when each of those 90 apps was last updated: At first glance, that seems pretty good-78% of what I have is still in the App Store.
Games for mac from app store free#
Of the 116 purchases (or free downloads) I've made since the App Store opened, 90 are still available in the App Store today. As part of this longer post on my purchases from the Mac App Store over the last seven years, one particular bit really struck me: Based on my purchases, at least, there are a a lot of rarely-updated apps-and games in particular-in the Mac App Store.
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