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Apple Mac App Store Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List,
Posted on 01/06/2011 9:25:44 PM PST by stripes1776
The Mac App Store has arrived and with it comes access to more than 1,000 different free and paid apps. While nearly identical in design to the iTunes App Store for iOS apps, the Mac App Store represents a big shift in Mac application discovery and development.
We’ve already done a walkthrough of the new store. What follows is our analysis of the overall store experience after spending the last few hours exploring the store, downloading applications, comparing the release to initial expectations and ruminating on how it will change the developer ecosystem.
If you’ve yet to experience the Mac App Store, you’ll need to upgrade your Mac OS X software to version 10.6.6. Once you do, you’ll find the Mac App Store waiting for you in your Dock. We encourage you to check it out for yourself and add your thoughts on the new store in the comments section below.
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The Mac App Store is packed with more than 1,000 applications out of the gate. This vast collection of applications spans 21 different categories, and Apple has done an amazing job at ensuring that the store feels boundless — in the sense that there are more apps than you could ever dream of — and is full of must-own applications. That is: there’s not a lot of fluff here (yet, anyways).
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I just downloaded it. This is pretty cool :)
Been on the App store for over 1 year. Through the iPhone 3GS and now iPhone 4. Love it, and I always check for updates in the store. My Apps keep getting better and better. Love it!
App store seems pretty cool — used it the other day with my wife’s iTouch.
Very similar to my Adroid Market, also very cool.
Both are quite intuitive.
A genius move - it supports the Apple business model of providing a superior user experience plus makes it possible for users to customized their device easily to make it unique and personl. Steve Jobs learned this lesson on the Apple II, only back then it was an open hardware architecture that made it possible for users to customize as well as 3rd party software. I got an Apple II just to burn memory chips because it was cheaper than a commercial PROM burner, and I could write letters and do spreadsheets as a bonus.
I use Ubuntu (Linux).
It has had that feature for years.
It has more than 34000 apps.
It’s all free.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List,
I don’t get it. I’ve never had a mac, but have used Windows for 15 years and the internet for about that, and getting free software for your computer was never really a problem.
It seems like mac people are dazzled by the idea of putting something different on their computer.
And I’d rather download software without installing it. And all software for Windows is free if you really want it to be free.
What would prevent Windows from doing what Apple is doing - if just setting up a website with links to downloads?
I with you on that!
Shh, don’t spoil it!
“What would prevent Windows from doing what Apple is doing - if just setting up a website with links to downloads?”
It’s not much more than that. Apple acts as the gate keeper, if it’s like iTunes store, and they get a cut of the action.
You could say that it’s been there for all computers (sites like tucows, etc.) - the only thing missing is an icon on your computer, which you could create yourself.
Oh yes...You can have you app as long as it is not pro-Christian. Apple won’t approve that. So I say don’t buy anything apple.
“You can have you app as long as it is not pro-Christian. Apple won’t approve that.”
I haven’t been anti-Mac, so I hope I’m not inviting a flame-fest. I’ve heard that the Apple logo — the apple with a bite out of it — is a reference to the Garden of Eden and man’s rebellion.
I’ve been using Ubuntu for the past 5 years but until recently I wanted a Mac for graphics and media work. Apple, however, is acting more and more like a Microsoft wanna-be, and Ubuntu/Linux is really gaining in the usability area. Ubuntu 10.10 is slick.
I’m thinking instead of putting down mega-bucks for a Mac, it would be better to stay with Linux.
Your tag line is very interesting.
Looking at it another way, one could say Adam and Eve were the charter members of the Sierra Club, as they essentially caused God to drive them out of the Garden because of disobedience.
God knowing them as he did, that in a short order they would have their long noses into his business.
Now some of Adam and Eve’s offspring, ever the busy bodies, are attempting to remove man from God’s man sustaining planet.
You heard wrong. The Apple name is a reference to the Apple that conked Newton on the head... and the bite was added to differentiate it from a cherry. here is the original Apple company logo:
Sorry, you really don't know what you are talking about, the Apple Mac App store is an order of magnitude different from what you describe.
Not even similar.
Uh, No... that's been on the Mac for years under the black Apple menu : "Mac OSX Software . . ."
This is totally different. I suggest you buy a clue before you criticize what you are obviously totally in the dark about...
Where’s the Linux guy with the suspenders? We are in dire need of his assistance.
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