Where I work, we rely on continuous deployment as a core part of our business. Our Mac client is updated really frequently, and I can only imagine how long we'l

Where I work, we rely on continuous deployment as a core part of our business. Our Mac client is updated really frequently, and I can only imagine how long we'll have to wait between releases. While I think the App Store is an interesting prospect, the thing I worry about the most is a company's ability to be agile and deliver to customers quickly. It's already a problem on the App Store on iOS. I realize agile isn't really a part of Apple's culture, but it's a powerful approach. Not everybody can afford to spend long product development cycles waiting to deliver value to customers like Apple does. In the real world, the money runs out at some point.