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kevindong on April 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020...

I just checked the app store on my Mac. I have just 1 application installed from the app store: Xcode. Even then that's just because Apple makes me have it installed to have command line tools such as git.

I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of applications (Microsoft Office, games, browsers, text editors, IDEs, etc.) installed on Macs are sourced from places other than the app store.

tim- on April 3, 2018 [–]

You can get the command line tools without installing Xcode from the App Store by running the command: xcode-select --install

kevindong on April 3, 2018 | [–]

Well, there goes the only App Store application then.

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