It’s no secret that Apple loves control, because they believe that with tighter control over all aspects of their business comes higher quality products.

Hack Store, a standalone program made to function identically to the Mac App Store program, aims to be a one-stop home for all of the apps that Apple refuses to allow in the Mac App Store (or that developers aren’t bothering to submit to Apple because they know Apple will never approve them). The only truly surprising thing about all this is that no one thought of it before. Based on the belief that Apple shouldn’t have the right to approve or disapprove of the apps it sells in the Mac App Store, a group of Russian developers have put together an alternative app store for Mac users, called Hack Store.