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I agree. I just can't see Adobe, Autodesk, etc, distributing their desktop apps via the Mac App Store.

• ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
  I think Apple wants to achieve the “philosopher’s stone” of software development: write once, deploy everywhere. Securely and robustly. I’m not sure that making money (in this case) is their biggest goal. I think having as much control as possible, over every aspect of the process is more what I suspect they want. That’s fairly typical “strong brand” stuff, and Apple has one of the strongest brands in the world. I’m not sure they can achieve it, but everything they are doing (SwiftUI, etc.) points that way. Since they have full control of the hardware, SDKs and operating system, as well as a huge pile of money, they may actually pull it off. There’s no reason to think they wouldn’t establish “special deals” with Adobe and Microsoft, to allow their software to be distributed through the store at a reduced (or possibly even subsidized) rate, as it would definitely be to Apple’s advantage to have the software in the store. Big corporations do that all the time. In a previous job, Intel gave us tens of thousands of dollars worth of help in optimization, for similar reasons. They seem to have done a number of really difficult things. I’ve learned not to write them off. They are fairly good at playing the long game.