Your comment was ignorant, arrogant and used one of the stupider (old) clichés around. It's a shame that it's up to +3. You claim that people have been releas

Your comment was ignorant, arrogant and used one of the stupider (old) clichés around. It's a shame that it's up to +3. You claim that people have been releasing desktop software just fine. Utter nonsense. If you're Microsoft, Adobe, etc. then it's been ok but if you're a sole developer making indie software the normal distribution routes weren't available. That meant going on some shareware site, freshmeat, make your own site or something else and hope people can find you. The App store changes all this for the mainstream desktop [1] and it's going to be a big deal for indie developers. I'm surprised to see so many people on this site poo pooing it as this has to be one of the most startup-relevant things to happen to the desktop in decades. [1] Linux has had this for a long time and it was one of its few advantages as a desktop system.