The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game.
>It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them,
Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same.
> and keeps them up to date in the background.
The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.
The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game.
>It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them,
Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same.
> and keeps them up to date in the background.
The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.