Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.6 and Launches Mac App Store

[Yamcha]

I'm not that impressed with the App Store, mainly because there aren't very many apps at all.. I had higher expectations I guess.. hopefully we'll see more..

 

[gorjan]

ah, the grammar police is here ....

Did it ever come to your mind that not everyone on this forum is a native english speaker? Don't know for his case, but at least you were able to understand what he meant.

I think Steve Jobs is a native english speaker.

 

[HLdan]

Bejeweled 3 for $19.99 ??? Not sure if I am spoiled by the iPhone/iPad prices but that seems to be way too much and from the screenshots it looks like just a blown up version of Bejeweled from the iPhone.

It's the same price on Steam.

 

[pjarvi]

Bought WeatherHD, installed without a hitch, but the app doesn't work too well. Looks like they just took their iPad version and dumped it on the Mac. It reports that I don't have an Internet connection (LOL), and the screen is covered by a tutorial that won't go away. I'm going to wait a few weeks before I buy anything more to let developers work the bugs out on their apps, and for more reviews to show up before I make any more blind buys.

 

[bigwig]

What happens when you actually click on a "buy" icon. It is one-click ordering (which I hate) or does it bring you to a confirmation page before charging you?

 

[adztaylor]

Yes, Windows users might not like it that much

You do realise you mis-quoted me right? Actually missing a word from what I said originally.

I agree, it's impressive. Very simple to use and I think this is going to be a big hit. Especially for new Mac users.

That is what I actually said. Please don't omit words.

 

[Small White Car]

I'd like to see it go quite the other way. Take the music store out of iTunes and stick a Music section in this new store app. Or for that matter, have a separate Music Store app, like on the iPhone.

Then iTunes can get back to being just about your library. Maybe even take the whole iPod/iPhone/iPad syncing aspect out of it and make another program that handles syncing and mobile app management. Then iTunes becomes an ancillary program to that, like iPhoto is to iTunes now.

Yeah, I'd kind of like 3 programs.

1) The iTunes App - Manages all media that aren't photos - Contains music and movie store for shopping/downloading/renting.

2) The App App - Manage your Mac apps and iOS apps. Buy them, organize them, love them.

3) The Mobile Sync App - Syncs your iPhones, iPods, and iPads. Sees and talks to iTunes, the App app, iPhoto/Aperture, Address Book, and Mail to bring stuff into your phone. Contains even more controls than iTunes does now...for example...use it to set up wireless G-Mail Exchange on your iPhone! (No more googling up instructions online and having to do it on the phone.) Or run 'Find My Phone' right inside of it instead of going to the website. Once it's out of iTunes they can make this bigger and more complicated without having to keep it bottled up in one little part of a bigger program.

 

[zim]

I was holding out on iLife '11 so that I could buy iPhoto separately... but now Apple has to confuse me by giving a great deal on Aperture!!! Does anyone know how well Aperture will run on a MacBook (white plastic model)? I have a master iPhoto library on there... I hate decisions!

 

[kas23]

I think Steve Jobs is a native english speaker.

Anyone who thinks Steve was born on this planet obviously doesn't know Steve...

 

[Enigmah]

I'm not that impressed with the App Store, mainly because there aren't very many apps at all.. I had higher expectations I guess.. hopefully we'll see more..

Think back to the ios app store launch, Same story.

I'm more concerned about the mac app store getting filled with vast amounts of garbage apps, I hope that skinny rat (steve jobs) does something about it !

 

[OllyW]

I think Steve Jobs is a native english speaker.

Only the American version of it.

 

[Scarpad]

I've already set aside a Mac Apps budget to go along with my iPhone apps budget. Next is iPad.

But I'm willing to pay for Nice Things™.

Can you buy with funds from Itunes?

 

[bobnugget]

Probably means that Aperture 3.5/4.0 is on the way. For $199.

Look at what Pixelmator has done. Moved its operation to the Appstore and now no more upgrades (despite what Pixelmator promised on the website) unless you pay for the app again.

Meh. I got it in a bundle. Thankfully, I got Adobe PE 9.0 for £23 at Xmas. Bye, bye Pixelmator.

I was pretty much going to write this post. Exactly the same here, and loving Photoshop Elements 9. I also got Pixelmator in a bundle and think their disregard for the userbase is terrible! Interesting that we allegedly get all the updates, but 1.6.2 is the current release, and 1.6.4 is the release in the App Store...

The App Store has recognised I have Delicious Library 2, but not Enigmo 2 or TextWrangler.

 

[zorinlynx]

I was holding out on iLife '11 so that I could buy iPhoto separately... but now Apple has to confuse me by giving a great deal on Aperture!!! Does anyone know how well Aperture will run on a MacBook (white plastic model)? I have a master iPhoto library on there... I hate decisions!

If you have at least 4GB of RAM, Aperture will run great. It doesn't run well on 2GB of less of RAM. I speak from experience; Aperture was near-useless when I used it with 2GB of RAM.

 

[chameleon81]

I find it very annoying to be forced to open itunes to get more information. How is this possible if they always talk about everything being webbased but still asking us to open the itunes in order to get information about an app.

 

[chairguru22]

Angry birds

Anyone d/l Angry Birds and it gets and error and won't open? Restart/reboot doesn't fix it.

 

[Messy]

Clever Apple.

So i copied one of the Apps i bought, onto a USB drive and stuck it one of the guys Macs upstairs, he tried to launch it and it asked him to confirm MY app store login details.

Nice. Clever. Would be a massive flaw if you could simply copy them over!

 

[Skika]

I want Logic 9 express!!!

Otherwise awesome. Apple setting standards again.

 

[-=XX=-Nephilim]

Cool news!

Shame App Store requires SL though...

Still on 10.5 here and have no intention of upgrading just for this...

Oh well - this all can wait as far as I am concerned

 

[slicecom]

Clever Apple.

So i copied one of the Apps i bought, onto a USB drive and stuck it one of the guys Macs upstairs, he tried to launch it and it asked him to confirm MY app store login details.

Nice. Clever. Would be a massive flaw if you could simply copy them over!

The cool thing is, you can use it on any Mac that has your iTunes login info entered. So if you own 10 Mac's, you only have to buy an App once.

 

[jacobj]

I have an update request (already): I need to be able to set set a price limit to ensure that the store checks that I want to purchase an item even if I am already logged in. I don't want to accidentally buy the £299.99 version of iStopMotion instead of the £29.99 one.

Anyone made a mistake yet? Surely they thought of that? Didn't they?

 

[rwilliams]

I was skeptical about this store, but man, this thing is gorgeous and slick. I wonder if Apple will consider breaking the iOS App Store away from iTunes and integrating it with the Mac App Store in OS X Lion. Of course, still having to use iTunes to sync your iOS devices would make that pointless.

 

[fivenotrump]

Cool news!

Shame App Store requires SL though...

Still on 10.5 here and have no intention of upgrading just for this...

Oh well - this all can wait as far as I am concerned

Why are you reluctant to update to SL?

 

[shervieux]

Got it working

So I finally got my mobile me / existing apple id to work. Here is what I am finding.

SERVERS ARE GETTING HAMMERED!!!! My downloads are slow and taking forever.

Here is what I don't like so far. I am a stickler for backing up my stuff. Looks like my time machine backups just became even more important and my only source. Unlike ipad/iphone apps that put an ipa in your "user/music/itunes/mobile applications" folder, which you can burn to CD/DVD manually or backup using itunes backup (I do that once ever couple of months). Looks like there is no way to backup the package that is downloaded for your apps from the mac app store. I cannot find the download anywhere. If someone does find them, send me an email (this thread is getting a way to long to search through). These apps are expensive and I would like to have more than just my time machine backup (hard drives do still fail).

 

[adztaylor]

I was skeptical about this store, but man, this thing is gorgeous and slick. I wonder if Apple will consider breaking the iOS App Store away from iTunes and integrating it with the Mac App Store in OS X Lion. Of course, still having to use iTunes to sync your iOS devices would make that pointless.

I really wish they would break the iOS store away from iTunes to this. I would much prefer to browse through iOS apps using this instead.