macOS 10.14 Mojave Removes Software Update Mechanism From the Mac App Store and Returns it to System Preferences

[Miguel Cunha]

Instead of opening the Mac App Store app, it opened the Software Update app. But I agree the latter was nicer. The Mac App Store is just a packaged website. Something I always hated.

I think you nailed it.

 

[bluecoast]

I'm of the opinion that macOS needs more of this kind of OS unification across the board. There is no reason to have different icons for the same apps and the bloody circles and tilted icons are dreadful.

Most hardcore Mac users hate this idea of unification but I really want it to go so much further.

The only parts I want apple to leave alone are things like customisations that iOS lacks completely. I should be able to arrange and change everything in macOS to look exactly like iOS "If I want it to" or like anything else. Since apple introduced system integrity protection and blocked downloadable apps by default, I worry MacOS will continue to get locked down to a point where it's unusable for me. That you can still edit the .app files/folders is amazing and long may it continue.

I suspect that we'll see a massive redesign of MacOS (and a significant one of iOS) next year that unifies the two as much as possible, along with the final marzipan APIs.

I feel that Mojave is both:

- Preparing the foundation work for this i.e. moving all compatible devices to AFS, using Metal2 for all graphics etc.
- And also making one last great version of this era of MacOS that's going to stick around for quite a while, for those that won't/can't change to the next version