Bodega: The story of corner store for Mac appsBodega, launched in 2011, was an alternative Mac App Store containing thousands of apps. It was created to offer an alternative to the Apple experience, which is very constraining for developers. If you had an app that, for whatever reason, wasn't able to get into the Apple App Store then you had two choices: change the app to make it fit Apples guidelines or release it yourself. The first option
