New Mac app store: ‘blood on the floor’
p2pnet view P2P:- Umm, what’s ‘iOS’?
Known as iPhone OS prior to June, 2010, it’s “Apple’s mobile operating system”, says the Wikipedia. “Developed originally for the iPhone, it has since been used on the iPod Touch, iPad and Apple TV as well. Apple does not permit the OS to run on third-party hardware.”
OK.
“I feel for those traditional Mac developers”, says ZDNet. “They’ve bled in six colors for all these years and now they’re going to simply be blood stains on the floor of the Mac App Store.”
Yeh? Yup. Because, “Tomorrow, the sky will fall”, says the post. “Tomorrow, the iOS developers move in and the traditional Mac developers better stick their heads between their legs and kiss those price points goodbye.”
Oooookay. So what’s it all about?
“The App Store brings a world of possibilities to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad”, says Apple, and now, “It’s about to do the same for your Mac.
“The Mac App Store is just like the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad”, it says. “So it’s as easy to find and download Mac apps as it is to add your favorite magazine to iPad or a new game to iPod touch. You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music, and more.”
Gosh!
But natch, you have to be on iTunes.
“Enter the same iTunes password you use to buy apps on iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch”, says the site. “And within seconds, your new app flies to your Dock, ready to go.”
Rilly? Wow!
Says the Pocket Cyclone >>>
- Mac Users. Expect great software, constantly updated, low prices, simple one-click purchase, charts, reviews, all the good stuff.
- Developers. The nimble ones.
- And the biggest winner is Apple. Again.
If you’re into making Apple / Jobs even richer than they are already by doing their value-added work for them — for free — head over to the Mac developer page.
The Mac App store opens tomorrow.
Now you know. 
ZDNet – For traditional Mac developers, Armageddon comes tomorrow, January 5, 2011
Pocket Cyclone – Mac App Store – Sneak Peak, January 4, 2011
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January 6th, 2011 at 12:28 am
“richer than they are already by doing their value-added work for them — for free —”
Correction, you have to pay $100 for licenses to release your developed software through their new app store, so it isn’t free; you’re paying $100 to do their value-added work for them.
January 6th, 2011 at 10:58 am
on an incredibly complex source code platform, restricted to their APIs, and requiring ‘approval’ for the ability to sell your product.
developers are leaving Apple like rats leaving a sinking ship. I know, I develop software.