Daniel Hruska With the arrival of OS X Lion, we all noticed the trend of convergence of two apple systems - iOS and OS X. Lion received several elements well known from iOS - sliders have disappeared (but they can be easily turned on), Lunchapad simulates the home screen of iDevices, the appearance of iCal applications, Address Book or Mail is very similar to its iOS siblings.
In order for us to be able to buy applications as conveniently as possible even on the desktop apple system, Apple came January 6, 2011 still in OS X Snow Leopard with the Mac App Store. Less than a year has passed since then, and users managed to download via 100 million apps, which is a very nice number.
If you've ever downloaded an app from the Mac App Store, you know that you have to check for updates yourself, or you'll find out about it in the form of a red badge with a number when the store launches. Couldn't the update notification process be done in a simpler and more elegant way? You probably asked yourself this question too Lennart Ziburski and came up with a very interesting concept.
A new version button would appear in the upper right corner of the application window. After clicking this button, a pop-up window would announce details about the update news. If you don't have time to install anything, you can simply ignore the warning. Otherwise, confirm the installation.
After the installation is complete, you will be prompted to restart the application. Of course, you can ignore this notification again and restart the application when you have finished working in it.
Personally, I would welcome a similar notification for new versions of applications. What I like about this concept specifically is its transparency. The warning is unmistakable or you can ignore it. It is just as easy to install the current version of the application in three clicks. At the same time, the implementation of this (or another) notification concept would increase the share of current versions of applications running on OS X.
source: macstories.net
This reminds me of Sparkle. Definitely a good idea compared to that web-based MAS shit :-)