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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 ceejayoz »

vokoda wrote: post #38

Anyone else feel like https://chrome.google.com/webstore makes this seem old-fashioned? Seriously who's going to be running software on their local machine a year from now (apart from hackers obviously).

Apple Remote Desktop, Aperture, etc. aren't going to run in the browser anytime soon.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by cubicle67 »

neovive wrote: post #20

Does anyone else feel that the word "app" is already branded to mean fast and cheap? Perhaps, it's just a perception that will diminish over time. I guess it sounds better than the "Mac Desktop Application Store".

at the risk of telling you what you already know...

programmes on the mac have the extension .app; it's roughly equivalent to .exe in Windows (except it's not a binary, more like a .jar). When the iPhone started, I guess 'App' was the natural name for them, and thus App Store came naturally as well.

Now it's come to the mac, it's makes even more sense, because it's back where it (Apps) started

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by microtonal »

zppx wrote: post #16

Aperture is US$ 79,99 in the Store, Lightroom now seems so expensive...

Except that RAW processing and denoising in LightRoom 3 is so much better than in Aperture 3 for my Panasonic Lumix LX5 and Samsung GX-10. Do a cursory survey of the Aperture discussion boards, and you will see lots of people with RAW support that used to work fine, but broke after a Camera RAW update. Apple is also slow to add support for new cameras. Besides that, Aperture 3 is slow, even on recent machines with 4GB RAM.

I own both, and miss the "Places" and "Faces" features from Aperture in LightRoom. But given Aperture's deficiencies, I use LightRoom 95% of the time.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by microtonal »

rimantas wrote: post #53
statictype wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but it kind of sucks for open source apps

I don't know. Let's say I wan't to host it myself, I'd pay about $240 per year for Linode VPS.

I'd pay nothing, and host it on GitHub. In fact I, and many others do.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by siddhant »

evilmushroom wrote: post #4

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

Soundcloud doesn't think so. I cant find the dmg on their website and the link to "Get App" redirects me to AppStore.

While I certainly appreciate Apple, for coming out with a central place for installing applications, this is what I absolutely don't want.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by cryptoz »

roadnottaken wrote: post #28
troels wrote: post #23

Distribute 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.

It'll also keep out a lot of indie games, free software and other cool things. It's sad.

Re: Mac App Store: Open for Business

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Post by Tichy »

ugh wrote: post #50

Arrrg! No way of uninstalling apps in one central location. Why, Apple, why? There is this nice list of installed apps, why doesn’t it have an uninstall button? It doesn’t make any sense. I guess you are expected to drag apps to the trash like before? That sucks.

You can't close apps on the Mac either (you can, but it is only for experts). I guess no uninstalling is just the logical extension of that concept.
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