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If anything, "mainstream" computer users are trending toward the exact opposite of this. App Stores for your desktop are the logical next step here.
by rhooper 16y ago
If anything, "mainstream" computer users are trending toward the exact opposite of this. App Stores for your desktop are the logical next step here.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoThe important questions are: only 1 appstore or many? And, appstores to the exclusion of all else? So far as I can tell few people really want only 1 appstore to the exclusion of any other way of installing apps.
- brudgers 16y agoProbably because most people are familiar with online shopping.
- brudgers 16y agoSince preloaded applications are called "crapware," would that make preloaded application stores "crap stores?"
- code_duck 16y agoApple already has something like that - for MacOSX, of course. Click on the Apple when the focus is on Finder, and Right under Software Update is "Mac OS X Software", which directs to http://www.apple.com/downloads/- http://www.apple.com/downloads/- essentially the App Store for desktops. It doesn't go through the wretched iTunes interface, though, and I don't believe applications are for sale, only free download. I'm sure a paid download and sales model is in the works, or of course they've at least thought of it.
- philwelch 16y agoThat's not very similar though. If Apple wanted something like that for Mac OS X, they'd have something almost exactly like Steam, except you wouldn't have to use the app-store program to launch your other programs. The downloads page is from the olden days of Mac OS X, when there was tons of Mac OS 9 software but almost nothing for Mac OS X and they had to promote everything you could even get for the new OS. Now that Apple survived the transition, they just kept the page up out of inertia.