John Vorhees, MacStories:
Now that people have had a chance to dig deeper into macOS Mojave, a number of smaller features have been discovered that didn’t get mentioned during the keynote on Monday and weren’t included in our initial overview of the updated OS that will be released in the fall. Here are a few of our favorite discoveries.
This is a short read, interesting all the way. My favorite nugget:
What Apple didn’t explain when it updated the Mac App Store is that macOS updates have been moved from the Mac App Store to System Preferences.
To me, this is a step towards iOS. Can’t help but wonder if we’ll see a unified core framework for the basic App Store and software updating functionality. Looking forward to playing with Marzipan.
Eh, a step toward iOS? How about a step back toward Mac. He could have written the sentence as “macOS updates have been moved BACK from the Mac App Store to the system preferences where they always freakin’ belonged.”
System updates originally were part of the system preferences app, long before iOS even existed.
Moving them to the app store made sense only in that initally, it allowed for new versions of the OS to be purchased online, instead of having to buy a physical disk.
Since OS updates have been free for several years now, there’s no need for them to be in the App Store itself, other than the shared updating system.