The Apps store at Apple is both good and bad. It’s good that it offers one stop shopping and updates for purchased items. However the amount of control the developers give up to put their products there hinders what they can and cannot do. So while you may only have to go to the Apps store to shop you may be settling on a product that has far less features than if you purchased the item directly from the developers. In fact many developers cannot be in the Apps store because their product violates Apples rules. Many Tricks software Moom is one of these. Their product is in the Apps store but all they can do is fix bugs they cannot add new features like they do if you buy the product directly from them due to Apples sandboxing rules. This is just a sample of one companies effort to keep their customers software up-to-date see their blog at (http://manytricks.com/blog/?page_id=2208) to learn more about how to update to their new versions by going to their web site. So if you really like a product at the Apps store you may want to check out the company that produces it and maybe buy it direct from the source. What this does is gives more money directly to the programmers. It lets the programmers inform you when updates happen and gives you the most current one with all the bells and whistles that Apple may not allow you to have. The biggest problem I have with Apple is that they do not turn over to the software developers who bought their products so they have know way to know that you have purchased their product. These are the bad parts of the Apple Apps store. The good part is that you can upgrade up to 5 machines using your Apps/iTunes account and password. This means if you buy Pages for your desktop you can also install it on you portable and your Mac Mini for no additional cost.