not central and automatic
Imagine if all your osX software updated through the system updates interface.. all at once.. Apple's own programs plus the third party stuff. My grief with osX and Windows currently is the twelve different check/download/install processes I have to go through before covering all software on the system.
Autoupdate is a problem for me to though. I want to know updates are available but I don't want to be a beta tester getting force-fed automated updates. Just like Windows, wait until the user posts hit isc.sans.org about what the updates broke.
Even my *nix get a manual update so I can review what packages will be affected. If it's a major component, I may need a website developer on hand to confirm that everything is good. If it's an obscure component, I may look up what it is related to. Just now, it was the network-manager update that took out my wifi connection (my own fault, running Debian Testing).
