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Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by statictype »

evilmushroom wrote: post #4

As long as this doesn't become the only way for me to put apps on my Mac. :P

It's not. The traditional method(s) will still work.

For me the main selling point of the centralized app store is that you get all updates in a single place instead of having each app spawn it's own update mechanism.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by roadnottaken »

psnj wrote: post #10
borism wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because iTunes is the most hideous part of Apple experience. luckily it's only needed for music... ...oh wait

Vigorously agree. I have no idea why I have such a hard time using iTunes, but I do consistently, even doing really simple and obvious things. It horrifies me.

To be fair, it's a pretty complex program that does very sophisticated things behind the scenes. I used to hate it, and I still mostly do. But I notice that the only people that really hate it are powerusers. There are hundreds of millions of people out there that find it delightful and enabling. It probably says something good about your UX if you're only bothering powerusers.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by roadnottaken »

statictype wrote: post #22
evilmushroom wrote: post #4

As long as this doesn't become the only way for me to put apps on my Mac. :P

It's not. The traditional method(s) will still work. For me the main selling point of the centralized app store is that you get all updates in a single place instead of having each app spawn it's own update mechanism.

Why hasn't anyone else thought of this before!?!

EDIT: Sarcasm.... ;)

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by generalk »

watty wrote: post #11

Is adware prohibited from everything in the store? It seems like every windows application I download has some sort of toolbar bundled but maybe this isn't a problem on Mac.

You don't see a lot of that on the Mac, mostly because of the culture. A lot of the big players in the Mac development world have been developing software since the 90s or earlier, so have a tangible sense of quality about their work. Newer developers are usually attracted to developing Mac software for that reason, and they don't want to disrupt it.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by pmjordan »

pclark wrote: post #17
rimantas wrote: post #12

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Why does Apple now have three different window control styles? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20635/Screenshots/r3da.png Only three? That makes very consistent interface then. Why are there back buttons ("like a browser") but you can't right hand click to get the contextual drop down? Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern. Contextual drop down? Not that common. Even Safari does not have it…

Seriously... Only three? That makes very consistent interface then. How is three good? Why are we applauding that, when, last week, Apple had two styles? I don't use Windows much but I'm pretty sure 99% of all the applications use the same window elements and style (this one: http://media.arstechnica.com/images/windows7/Peek%20-%20Befo... ) Back buttons are there, you know, to get back. Very common usage pattern. Con…

Aperture (and probably the other pro tools) has yet another style (greyscale), actually, but that only reinforces your point. The various different teams within Apple seem to be pushing their UIs in wildly different directions recently. iTunes was one of the first with weird UI (the back button in the iTMS is horribly broken); iPhoto '11 behaves quite differently to iPhoto '09, and unlike any Apple app before it. Now the App Store.
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