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Both the App Store and Microsoft Store deal with installs and updates, no need for custom wrappers. Not sure about Linux.



End-users are still more familiar with a download link on a website for a exe/dmg installer on desktop.

You also need to need to redo your subscription/payments to support the stores and give a percentage of your revenue to Apple/Microsoft. On mobile you have no option but on desktop it's hard to justify giving up so much of your profit margin when there's a popular alternative.

BTW, Linux has the Snap Store.


Hmm I really don’t think so. You might be thinking of tech people, not the general public.


All of the non-technical people I know are capable of installing software on desktop computers without using app stores.


I have a mac laptop and windows desktop and I never use the app stores.


I have used each of them exactly once. In both cases, it was to purchase an OS upgrade.


You’re the HN audience.




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