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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by tonypace on Thursday April 09, 2020 @06:18AM (#22821181)
No company that has a choice is going to pay Apple their tax. That's why the MacOS sure is always going to be the same as the Windows store: a home of loser apps. Since another install procedure is available, only losers will use the app store. Ergo, any software available through the app store is a loser app.
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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by codydh on Thursday April 09, 2020 @07:37AM (#22821557)
And yet Microsoft Office is available via the macOS App Store, alongside venerable packages like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, Logic and Final Cut (Apple-owned software), the Omni suite of software, Autodesk software, Pixelmator, etc.

The App Store has problems, but all apps there being "loser apps" is not one of them.

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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by jedieaston on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:55AM (#22822046)
You can't pay for Office through the App Store though, you have to activate it with a personal or corporate Office 365 account. If you bought a perpetual license, I believe you have to go get it through Microsoft regardless.
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Re:Tell HN: Cisco WebEx on OS X uses the same pre-installer ... by thu2111 on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:19AM (#22822758)
Which is by the way against the App Store policies, so they must have cut some special deal.
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