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Mac App Store Notes: Recognizing Previously-Installed Apps, Pricing Discounts

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With the Mac App Store having gone live earlier today, users have now had a chance to play around with the store's features and offerings. And while the Mac App Store is fairly straightforward and very reminiscent of the iOS App Store, there are a few items of note that are worth mentioning.

Gizmodo offers a brief walkthrough of the Mac App Store purchasing process and some of the accompanying changes in Mac OS X 10.6.6, which include the use of existing iTunes Store accounts (and thus any corresponding gift card balances) for Mac App Store purchases and the previously-noted unknown filetype search integration in Mac OS X. Other interesting notes:

- Applications installed outside the Mac App Store: The Mac App Store automatically recognizes when a user already has Apple apps such as iLife '11 and iWork '09 installed on his or her system, showing an "installed" note in place of the purchase button in the store. The same does not appear to be true for third-party applications, however, as our previously-installed copy of TextWrangler was not picked up by the Mac App Store.


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- Discounts on Apple software: The three components of Apple's iWork productivity suite are offered individually through the Mac App Store for $19.99 apiece, for a total of $59.97. In addition to offering the flexibility of purchasing only select portions of the iWork suite, the overall Mac App Store price is considerably below Apple's $79.00 price for iWork on physical media. In addition, Mac App Store purchases can be used on multiple machines controlled by the user, making the Mac App Store version more like the $99 iWork family pack.

Even bigger discounts can be had on a couple of other Apple software products. Most notably, Apple is offering Aperture 3 through the Mac App Store for only $79.99, a tremendous savings off of the $199 price for the version shipping on physical media. Apple is also offering its Apple Remote Desktop software through the Mac App Store for $79.99, a format that might be more appealing to some consumers than the company's standard offerings of a 10-system license for $299 or an unlimited license for $499.

iLife '11, however, is a slightly different story which sees the individual iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand components priced at $14.99 in the Mac App Store, for a total of $44.97. Apple sells iLife '11 on physical media for $49.00, a package that also includes iWeb and iDVD. But considering that all new Macs ship with the full iLife suite and that iWeb and iDVD were not updated with iLife '11, most users should already be essentially up-to-date on those applications.

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on my macbook pro, iphoto is recognized by appstore, but installed iwork is not recognized by appstore
 
Third Party Apps

It does acknowledge third party apps that were previously installed. It noticed that I already had Coda. Had the same issue as you did with TextWrangler though...

At first it didn't notice Coda, after I updated it the App Store recognized it.
 
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$79 for aperture may be a great deal, but good luck getting support for it. I was told by AppleCare that a support agreement for Aperture is $2,799. Or, I could just buy another copy for additional 90 days. Come on apple, this is ridiculous!
 
kinich_ahua said:
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$79 for aperture may be a great deal, but good luck getting support for it. I was told by AppleCare that a support agreement for Aperture is $2,799. Or, I could just buy another copy for additional 90 days. Come on apple, this is ridiculous!
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Really? wow that support pricing sucks !
 
burgen said:
on my macbook pro, iphoto is recognized by appstore, but installed iwork is not recognized by appstore
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My iWork wasn't recognised initially, but then I ran yesterdays update, closed the App Store and reopened and it now recognises them.
 
pxlogs said:
It does acknowledge third party apps that were previously installed. It noticed that I already had Coda. Had the same issue as you did with TextWrangler though...

At first it didn't notice Coda, after I updated it the App Store recognized it.
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i guess it should be the same version than in the store to be recognized, …
 
Something like that for me too...

Maxed out MBA 13" here. App Store sees installed iLife '11, Rapid Weaver 5, Comic Life 2, however it does not recognize installed iWork '09 and Pixelmator.
 
Multi-Computer Purchasing

Very interesting about the multiple computer possibilities. I control two labs of Macs, and if I could find some way to block student access to the store (and that wouldn't break updates) maybe I could finally get iWork on them for one low price.
 
pxlogs said:
It does acknowledge third party apps that were previously installed. It noticed that I already had Coda. Had the same issue as you did with TextWrangler though...

At first it didn't notice Coda, after I updated it the App Store recognized it.
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Coda definitely got recognised for me. As did Transmit 4.

I noticed another thing, if you search for “cinch” then DoublePane comes up.

And if you search for “espresso” then Taco HTML edit comes up.

I guess this is developers being sneaky.
 
agentkow said:
Very interesting about the multiple computer possibilities. I control two labs of Macs, and if I could find some way to block student access to the store (and that wouldn't break updates) maybe I could finally get iWork on them for one low price.
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I think you could use parental controls?
 
agentkow said:
Very interesting about the multiple computer possibilities. I control two labs of Macs, and if I could find some way to block student access to the store (and that wouldn't break updates) maybe I could finally get iWork on them for one low price.
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And then promptly get sued into oblivion for breaking the licensing agreement. Get a site license and play by the rules, dude. It's not that expensive.
 
MacRumors said:
Even bigger discounts can be had on a couple of other Apple software products. Most notably, Apple is offering Aperture 3 through the Mac App Store for only $79.99, a tremendous savings off of the $199 price for the version shipping on physical media. Apple is also offering its Apple Remote Desktop software through the Mac App Store for $79.99, a format that might be more appealing to some consumers than the company's standard offerings of a 10-system license for $299 or an unlimited license for $499.
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People should be aware that these apps purchased from the MAS are for personal use only. If you intend to use them in a professional environment you will still need to buy the full retail versions.
 
Support for Aperture....

aucl said:
Really? wow that support pricing sucks !
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Tell me about it. Painfully, last week I paid $179 for the retail version of Aperture, only to find there was no way to ever get my initial 90 days of support. :(
 
agentkow said:
Very interesting about the multiple computer possibilities. I control two labs of Macs, and if I could find some way to block student access to the store (and that wouldn't break updates) maybe I could finally get iWork on them for one low price.
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It's for "Personal, non-commercial use only", so unless you want to do it illegally, you'll have to find another way.
 
current apple apps recognized, previous versions not

Makes sense, my iWork on my Mac is up to date, but my iLife isnt (iLife is up to date on my iMac at home instead).
The App store recognizes that I have already purchased all the iWork modules, but NOT the iLife modules.
I bet when I upload the iLife'11 from disk, then the app store will recognize those as already purchased.

pretty smart for Apple apps, recognizes version number and determines if you need to buy or not.

As others are reporting with 3rd party apps, the solution is less than perfect.
I have many of Omni's apps and they are current, but the MacApp store is more than happy to sell me another copy.

Apple needs to fix this to prevent people from accidentally buying an infrequently used app more than once. The owner of the computer will probably know better but a spouse or kid less familiar with installed software on that computer might accidentally purchase twice...
 
How do you reinstall Apps?

Let's say I have purchased 100 apps from the Mac App store. Then I want to do a fresh install of my OS. Can I re-download them from the App store for free? Can I see a list of what items I've purchased?
 
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