Mac App Store to Launch As Early as December 13th?

[mmcc]

I understand, however I think that Apple will support all the 3 platforms(Internet, Mac OS software, Mac App Store) individually. Programs such as Final Cut and Logic and many others will keep living in a separate enviroment.

Does anyone have a clue if the Apple Downloads section at http://www.apple.com/downloads/ will continue as a listing for 3rd party apps?

 

[-=XX=-Nephilim]

I like the idea of App Store...

I just hope they don't ruin it with some Cupertino Neo-Fascist politics and / or similar - keeping me fingers crossed!

 

[BJMRamage]

Nice to see some people with differing opinions not pick on each other but clearly state theirs concerns/happiness with this development.
I see this as a good thing and thought this would have happened earlier, after Widgets, and Apps, just waiting on the day they had this mini-app type store for MacOS.

I can see this being great for Office style apps where I might not buy the whole collection of “crap” but only need to buy Word and have hesitated on purchasing the whole suite because of that. This would be a la carte app buying of suite products easy. AND those Mac Bundles could easily be done through the APP store. Way I see it, if an App is in the Store it wont come with extra buggy stuff to be tossed around the Mac.

Freaked out, nope. Thrilled to no end, not that either, I just see this as a good thing to make computer usage that much easier.

 

[Trakker]

People still buy programs?

I purchase programs which have my approval for decent hard earned programming - but thing's like Microsoft Office 2011?

I don't think so.

Still, looking forward to the App Store, hoping some of the small developers and their nifty apps can be advertised more.

 

[Mochi Hana]

Ugh. Without naming names or calling out individuals, anyone who seriously thinks that Apple will EVER restrict all application installs to only the App Store doesn't know much about computers OR business.

It will NEVER happen.

I hope you're right..you never know what someone will decide to do though. =/

 

[Trakker]

Too many iUsers here and not enough Macintosh users I think.

 

[guzhogi]

Thanks for your understanding. I also used words like "may" and "if" etc. as often as possible in my posts. I just don't have too positive feelings about the AppStore and generally take most things with a grain of salt.

After all, I believe it's good to question some things before being overly excited about something.

Nice to see your understanding, too. I find that I'm a very moderate thinker: I can see the advantages & disadvantages in many situations. Unfortunately, it appears that I'm a vanishing breed. A lot of people, not just on MacRumors but life in general, people only really understand the extremes. Kinda sad. Either people on this thread seem to be the Kool-Aid drinking "Apple can do no wrong" and "This'll be the greatest thing ever" people or the Chicken Little "The sky is falling!" people. Very few people, I find, see both the good & bad aspects of this.

I can appreciate how a Mac App Store can make looking for, buying & updating software easier. And I'm very much for that.

However, I can see the possibility of Apple making the app store the ONLY store for Mac software. It would be very profitable for them since they'll make 30% off of every purchase. Plus, Apple says it wants to make the Mac experience a good one.

I was thinking about this, and thought that there are 3 basic kinds of people in the world:
-Those that want to leave really exciting, albeit short, lives
-Those that want to live long, albeit boring & very protected, lives
-And people somewhere in between

I find that Apple is one of those longer, but boring, kinds of people. From what I've seen of Apple, they want their products to be a good experience without anything bad. Kinda like the parents who make their kids live in bubbles so they don't get sick. Unfortunately, while the kid might not get sick, they would not get to really experience all the really good stuff in life. As good as the Mac App Store may be, there's a lot of even better apps out there that, while they bring greater risk, they also bring better experience for some people. Just my 2¢ [/rant]

 

[JohnnyQuest]

I'm excited for this. It's a hassle to install apps the old-fashioned way with discs. Plus, with the Mac App Store, you can download just one app out of, say, iWork, instead of all of them. It'll save money and time, and it's pretty convenient.

 

[*LTD*]

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It might best to avoid any and all analogies. Really.

 

[Sofabutt]

I don't think I'll install it and most likely the first thing to do in 10.7 will be to delete this.

I agree. And I hope to God this new App Store will have nothing to do with the already bloated iTunes.

 

[Hattig]

I hope it means iWork '11 will be available very soon.

 

[edeibler]

I think it's a great idea!

Personally, I am really looking forward to an app store, not as some kind of revolutionary feature, but as a simple and pleasant convenience, just as it is on the iPad and iPhone. Every time a new version of iLife or iWork comes out, I find myself wishing I could simply download it rather than waiting for it to be delivered or making a trek to one of our local Apple stores.

Also, I have young children at home, and it would be great to be able to purchase and download small apps for them in the moment, just as we do on the iPad; it's a great convenience to be able to download an educational game or activity for one of our mobile devices when they express interest in a subject, and having this on a desktop machine is just a nice option. While this might not be an Earth-shaking upgrade, I honestly can't see a negative side to this.

 

[314631]

Please post some evidence then because it sounds ridiculous. There were only 75 million OS X users in total in 2009, do you honestly believe a simple app store is going to more than double the Mac user base?

You have a very simplistic view of the paradigm shift that I see happening. This more than a simple app store. This is a complete revolution that will, put quite simply, reshape the entire computer industry.

 

[jimmyjoemccrow]

Yayyyyy it will launch on my birthday

Mine too. I can't see myself using this though, I already know where to get my software. I already know what I do and don't need.

 

[ct2k7]

People still buy programs?

I purchase programs which have my approval for decent hard earned programming - but thing's like Microsoft Office 2011?

I don't think so.

Still, looking forward to the App Store, hoping some of the small developers and their nifty apps can be advertised more.

I've looked at iWork and Office 2011. I much prefer the latter: I seem to work quicker in it. Keynote is beginning to become a drag to find stuff.

 

[OllyW]

You have a very simplistic view of the paradigm shift that I see happening. This more than a simple app store. This is a complete revolution that will, put quite simply, reshape the entire computer industry.

Apple sold an impressive 13.66 million Macs in the last financial year. Even if 50% were first time Mac owners so that's only around 7 million new customers.

To get your "hundreds of millions" of new customers would mean a staggering increase in sales. What time frame are you suggesting for this "complete revolution"?

 

[osxtasy]

I agree 110%

The main reason is that, with Apple, you never know. If the AppStore is a huge success, which it most certainly will be, there may come the day where it will become the only real source for Mac programms, with Apple as the censor above them all. And imo this is a really bad thing, because who is Apple to know what everybody wants on ones own computer, bought with ones own money?
This completely closed platform thing works great for mobile phones, but not for much more complex computers.

Apart from that, Apple will collect the data from everyone who ones a Mac and uses the AppStore. Profiles of what people like, what they don't like, what they download and what they use for how long. There will be buyers for that, be it other corporations or the government. And the way it works with deals between big corporations and governments, you won't even know about your data being sold to the highest bidder.

So, you can call me paranoid, which many of you will, but anybody can inform himself about some really bad things going on on the internet censorship/surveillance front. So if I see something that provides infrastructure for this, and I don't really see any actual benefit for me, it's an easy choice not to use it.

While I absolutely like my Mac Pro, my MacBook Pro and Mac OS 10.6., I don't have to like every single one of Apples offerings. I don't have an iTunes account either, as I'm oldfashioned and prefer to buy CDs.

I OBVIOSLY agree with all that was said, as we ALL know how sneaky a salesman Steve Jobs is. It's all about the CONTROL, and telling us what HE THINKS WE (the consumer) needs.

I am already contemplating NOT buying another mac(I've bought 5 in 4 years) due to this incessant desire for complete control which Apple has begun to show.

The writing is on the wall..... All jobs is doing is waiting to collect metrics on how well he can use this platform for iAds, and then he WILL resell that data to other corporations(just like on the iPhone). Thank god for little snitch in the meantime with 10.6, as this "macApp store" on 10.7 wont be a voluntary install, and will very likely be a hardcoded 24x7 connection to Apple, moreso than itunes im guessing...

MARK MY WORDS.....

1984 anyone??? :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhsWzJo2sN4

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

 

[Burger Thing]

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Meet the Winni Family

 

[sniffies]

iWeb '11, anyone?

 

[NT1440]

Apple sold an impressive 13.66 million Macs in the last financial year. Even if 50% were first time Mac owners so that's only around 7 million new customers.

To get your "hundreds of millions" of new customers would mean a staggering increase in sales. What time frame are you suggesting for this "complete revolution"?

Apple changes plenty of markets that they don't dominate. Thats what happens when you have a massive chunk of the mindshare of the public. Expect to see similar stores from various PC vendors sometime next year.

 

[Burger Thing]

iWeb '11, anyone?

+1

I was really disappointed with the iLife '11 'update' - a new version of iWeb was the piece of software I was looking forward to the most.

 

[OllyW]

Apple changes plenty of markets that they don't dominate. Thats what happens when you have a massive chunk of the mindshare of the public. Expect to see similar stores from various PC vendors sometime next year.

aurichie is claiming all these new customers will be coming to the Mac platform.

 

[Blair230]

On the trial thing Apple don't want them in the store and I can understand why. They'd need to host them and pay the bandwidth cost for apps they don't see a single penny on unless the user decides to buy. Instead they're saying to developers that trials, betas etc must be hosted externally. I don't see a problem with that at all, especially as devs could just put a 'for a trial click here' link in the software description. Yeah, it'd be nice to have it through the app store but considering the size of a lot of desktop apps (games especially can be multiple gigs) it's not really practical for Apple to do so.

I have heard Apple has told developers that want to offer demos or trials to do so on their respective websites. Hopefully at least the app store would have a link to the demo...or at least a mention of it!

 

[GCardoso]

Is launchpad going to be available by the same time as the store or will your apps go to the applications folder?

 

[LegendKillerUK]

Is launchpad going to be available by the same time as the store or will your apps go to the applications folder?

LaunchPad is a Lion feature.