Is this like synaptic et al.? I mean, do you get updates automatically? That would be great! Also, a central packaging tool helps avoiding multiple installations of the same software, when dependencies can be tracked and resolved. If that is what this is: cool.
Mac App Store: Open for Business
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Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.... ;)
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
iTunes is by far the worst Apple product in terms of software engineering
Maybe. Never had any problems with it, be it Windows (long time ago) or Mac (since 2004).
iDevice syncing is full of unhandled corner cases which lead to crashes, inconsistent state, nonsense error messages, or lost data. It's also really easy to accidentally delete stuff off your device if you don't have the same data locally. I probably get the short end of the stick for being a developer: iTunes and XCode have a kind of love-hate relationship. That's far from the only source of problems though, I've seen all kinds of weirdness outside the context of iOS development.
Even outside of this, there are some embarrassing hiccups, e.g.:
- The UI becomes extremely unresponsive while importing media - it seems the import runs in the UI thread, or otherwise causes the UI thread to block.
- If you're editing metadata for a file while it's playing, there's a brief pause while saving.
There's no excuse for either of those, and seem the sort of thing a decent programmer with knowledge of the codebase could fix in a day or so. (I'm aware that ID3v2 is typically stored at the start of the file and requires the whole file to be rewritten; notifying the streaming playback thread of the byte offset shift and new file descriptor is however not rocket science)
Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business
#45Buy, download, and even redownload. its amazing how apple expected customers to pay for the same digital product over and over.
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#47Distribute Mac apps on the Mac App Store $99/year Hm ..
Really that's a pittance. And it'll keep people from blatantly spamming the App reviewers with garbage.
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#48Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.... ;)
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#50I guess you are expected to drag apps to the trash like before? That sucks.