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Mac App Store Hits 10,000 Available Apps

walnuts said:
I find it kind of curious that they called it a "PC software store". They could have left "PC" out, still made their point, and continued their policy of distinguishing themselves from PCs. Strange for Apple marketing.
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Steve Jobs referred to Macs as PCs several times. The definition of a PC does not preclude Macs.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/personal computer

Apple generally wants people to "think different" about computers and technology in general. When we hear "PC" we think Windows. Apple doesn't want that. :D

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pubwvj said:
Apple would have a LOT MORE APPS available if they would continue to support OS9 and PPC. It is a shame that Apple has discontinued those. The hardware is plenty powerful to do the emulation. There are enormous numbers of titles for educational, small business and tools that could run under emulation. These great titles are now no longer available. Apple is destroying this programming art. The 1990's was the hay day of creative educational titles. Shame on Apple.
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While it is a shame that current Macs can't run PPC apps, I don't think that Apple is destroying the programming art. It's really the opposite. Apple wants to keep apps current and fresh. Instead of blaming Apple for the lack of PPC functionality maybe the developers should update their apps to work with modern computers. Apple isn't a nostalgic business. It's a current one.
 
camnchar said:
Apple would have a LOT MORE APPS available if they would continue to support the Apple II. It is a shame that Apple has discontinued those. The hardware is plenty powerful to do the emulation. There are enormous numbers of titles for educational, small business and tools that could run under emulation. These great titles are now no longer available. Apple is destroying this programming art. The 1980's was the hay day of creative educational titles. Shame on Apple.
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That is fabulously hilarious!:D

It's simply time to move on. Emulated OS 9 support would be confusing to the target audience of young students. If the Educational Software developers are still in the market with those titles they would do well to update their apps with the better graphics, video and audio that new education software demands.
 
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bjm2660 said:
See this thread. Mac Chess very unApple

In sum, it's a very poor dated interface--not the simple, elegant, clean look we expect from Apple.
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Not trying to argue, but I thought the most important part about a chess app is its ELO rating. The Chess app has an ELO rating above 2000, which means it can obliterate beginners.
 
walnuts said:
I find it kind of curious that they called it a "PC software store". They could have left "PC" out, still made their point, and continued their policy of distinguishing themselves from PCs. Strange for Apple marketing.
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Why? Did the Mac suddenly stop becoming a Personal Computer?
 
The day that they force us to install applications from the Mac app store as they do with iOS, is the day that I stop using a Mac. Not having freedom to install what you wish on your computer is like living under a dictator. It's very unfortunate, as it's seems this is the route they are going, and that's a real shame because I love using OS X.
 
AppleTree said:
The day that they force us to install applications from the Mac app store as they do with iOS, is the day that I stop using a Mac. Not having freedom to install what you wish on your computer is like living under a dictator. It's very unfortunate, as it's seems this is the route they are going, and that's a real shame because I love using OS X.
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What makes you think this is the route they are going?
 
SmileyBlast! said:
If the Educational Software developers are still in the market with those titles they would do well to update their apps with the better graphics, video and audio that new education software demands.
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In many cases, those developers are long gone from the business, so there's no one to update those apps. Also in many cases, those developers "back then" were far more creative than the developers today (at least in some people's opinion). There were some Apple II games with far better gameplay than a vast boatload of iOS apps that try to cover up their lack of gameplay or educational value with whizzy graphics, video, sound effects and the like.

All that not-so-ancient art is now lost (or limited to techies who can figure out how to get legacy emulators to run, and to lawyers who can figure out where to get the legal rights to orphaned code).
 
I wish Apple would allow compaines like VMWare Fusion or Parallel make emulators for older Mac operating systems. I have read that VMWare is allowed to emulate Snow Leopard server OS but not Snow Leopard. There were some great games running in OS 8.6 and 9.2.
 
Best game ever for mac was Super Number Munchers. I used to play that all the time back when all schools had were macs because they were so cheap.

AkA:the 90's
 
nice... 10,000 total apps which leaves only about 100 that're actually good enough to use.
 
I use Basilisk II and Mini vMac for emulating older Macs. There are ways to emulate old versions of OS X discussed here: http://www.emaculation.com/ I don't use them though since I have a bunch of PowerPCs sitting here in the first place.

Parallels is designed to only emulate Intel processor machines. Hence no Tiger.

I don't like the Mac App Store either and would love to pull it off my dock if it wasn't that I'd lose out on updates. And it's only because I have an addiction to buying apps and while $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, and sometimes $10.99 is okay with iPhone apps, the $19.99 and upwards on the Mac App Store is not. I don't even need most of those apps and games in the first place. The Mac isn't a consumption device like my iPhone and future iPad is.
 
Well, that's good. But, as many others have pointed out, what both app stores really need is a MUCH better system for navigating and finding apps. With so many choices, there are very few good ways to sift through them all!
 
Pretty sure the Mac App Store was meant for people who bought iPhones/iPads/iPods as their first Apple devices or first computers and then chose to move on to the Mac product line. Launchpad is the same feature. I doubt those of us who have used Macs for a while ever use those features on a daily basis.
 
Lacks Support

I can't even get any updates from the App Store. All I get is a "The application could not be downloaded" with a "NSInternalInconsistencyException". Have tried to contact the Apple App Store Support but all I keep getting is the iTunes Support. No help no updates. Have had tried to contact the software developer, they looked into it and say it's Apple, Apple say's it them. Can't even get any updates from the developers, only via the App Store.

What ever you do, think twice before becoming stuck with a one closed up shop.
 
Jessica Lares said:
I don't like the Mac App Store either and would love to pull it off my dock if it wasn't that I'd lose out on updates. And it's only because I have an addiction to buying apps and while $0.99, $1.99, $2.99, and sometimes $10.99 is okay with iPhone apps, the $19.99 and upwards on the Mac App Store is not. I don't even need most of those apps and games in the first place. The Mac isn't a consumption device like my iPhone and future iPad is.
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You can pull App Store off your dock. I did. Don't worry, the App Store would still be there in the application folder. It just won't be there on the dock.
 
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