>App stores are what users and developers want I as a developer don't care. I was selling software on the web before app stores came around. And update distrib

>App stores are what users and developers want I as a developer don't care. I was selling software on the web before app stores came around. And update distribution + payment processing wasn't hard. At least not that hard that I'd like to pay 30% of my revenue for. And users. User don't really "want" app stores. They take them because they are convenient. But my software download and sales volumes didn't change much with app stores. People just switched to the app store from softpedia (or whatever software sites they were using before). There's not more users buying software just because Apple came up with the Mac app store. At least not for my business.