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Amazon's New Mac Download Store Takes On Apple's Mac App Store
- seanalltogether 15y agoIs this only available for larger publishers or can indie developers get in on the game?
- dchest 15y agoIndies too.
- phishphood 15y agoI emailed them for the terms, will see how it develops
- msie 15y agoAnyone could setup their own Mac Download Store. It's called a website.
- JeremyBanks 15y agoAmazon isn't just anyone.
- r00fus 15y agoA majority of their titles are language learning packs. Maybe some key software makers like VMWare will step up, I'd like to see Adobe's products there, also - Adobe has horrible DRM and licensing management.
- josegeek 15y agoWould be awesome if Amazon could set up an alternative to the iTunes store. Not sure if that would even be possible. Amazon already has the Android store where you can purchase Android apps. Wonder if they can do it. Is any company currently selling iPhone apps outside of iTunes?
- SoftwareMaven 15y agoYou have to jailbreak to install apps not sold in the App Store, but in that case, Cydia has built an app marketplace.
- xsmasher 15y agoAmazon could certainly set up a "web app store" that manages web app purchases/authentication; it could run in a sort of "Kindle App for web apps" on the iPhone. There are a lot of useful apps that would work just fine as web apps but discovery is hard.
- ansy 15y agoAmazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231 It's almost time someone made a meta-store for managing assets across multiple stores. As a side note it appears the Amazon store is reportedly DRM laden [1]. I wonder if this is true for the Mac software as well. [1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200205020&#drm http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
- macrael 15y agoWhat are the terms for developers?