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Amazon opens Mac software store with downloads

29 points by rytis 15y ago

joshaidan 15y ago
Hmm... could this open up some kind of anti-trust suit since only Apple is able to have an app store on iOS?
- wesley 15y ago
  It's not an "app store". It's a website with downloadable software.
  - rytis 15y ago
    hmm a website that sells stuff can be called a "store"... and if stuff happens to be "apps"... makes an "app store" to me, doesn't it? :)
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    - sorbus 15y ago
      In exactly the same way that a brick and mortar store which happens to sell software can be called an app store, yes.
- brianbreslin 15y ago
  In theory this competes more directly with the mac App store than the iOS app store.
  - joshaidan 15y ago
    I just mean since there's no way Amazon could do the same for iOS.
  - balac 15y ago
    It doesn't compete at all with the iOS app store, they are only selling OSX desktop applications, not mobile iOS ones.
heathanderson 15y ago
I don't understand why news outlets are making such a big deal of this. Amazon have offered software downloads for a while now. Previously it was just Windows software; now they also have Mac software. It is not like it is unprecedented for a website to offer Mac software downloads.
- sjs 15y ago
  I think one reason it's news is because people have predicted that Adobe CS and Office will never be on the Mac App Store. If there's a competing store that does offer such titles a few big titles like that are enough to give it some steam. And it's Amazon so they already have steam.
- tvon 15y ago
  It means Amazon has failed at properly marketing their software download center thing, I'd say ;)
peterb 15y ago
Competition is a good thing, hopefully it will push Apple to lower prices and offer more selection. I've used both stores and I strongly prefer Apple's. I prefer the design and I find it easier to discover apps I would consider buying.
leejoramo 15y ago
Is this anything really new? For the last couple of years I have purchased and downloaded Quickbooks & TurboTax for Mac via Amazon. This looks like it is mostly just a landing page consolidating the Mac related downloadable programs that Amazon has been selling for sometime.
- neovive 15y ago
  I agree with you here. It appears to be a landing page that consolidates the downloadable Mac software and also tracks and allows redownloading of the software via the library feature.
protomyth 15y ago
Anyone got a developers prospective on this? What needs to be done to your software to make it work? What is the pricing like and payout?
ComputerGuru 15y ago
Link to the Amazon Mac Software store: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231

29 points by rytis 15y ago

joshaidan 15y ago

Hmm... could this open up some kind of anti-trust suit since only Apple is able to have an app store on iOS?

wesley 15y ago
It's not an "app store". It's a website with downloadable software.
- rytis 15y ago
  hmm a website that sells stuff can be called a "store"... and if stuff happens to be "apps"... makes an "app store" to me, doesn't it? :)
  - deleted 15y ago
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  - sorbus 15y ago
    In exactly the same way that a brick and mortar store which happens to sell software can be called an app store, yes.
brianbreslin 15y ago
In theory this competes more directly with the mac App store than the iOS app store.
- joshaidan 15y ago
  I just mean since there's no way Amazon could do the same for iOS.
- balac 15y ago
  It doesn't compete at all with the iOS app store, they are only selling OSX desktop applications, not mobile iOS ones.

heathanderson 15y ago

I don't understand why news outlets are making such a big deal of this. Amazon have offered software downloads for a while now. Previously it was just Windows software; now they also have Mac software. It is not like it is unprecedented for a website to offer Mac software downloads.

sjs 15y ago
I think one reason it's news is because people have predicted that Adobe CS and Office will never be on the Mac App Store. If there's a competing store that does offer such titles a few big titles like that are enough to give it some steam. And it's Amazon so they already have steam.
tvon 15y ago
It means Amazon has failed at properly marketing their software download center thing, I'd say ;)

peterb 15y ago

Competition is a good thing, hopefully it will push Apple to lower prices and offer more selection. I've used both stores and I strongly prefer Apple's. I prefer the design and I find it easier to discover apps I would consider buying.

leejoramo 15y ago

Is this anything really new? For the last couple of years I have purchased and downloaded Quickbooks & TurboTax for Mac via Amazon. This looks like it is mostly just a landing page consolidating the Mac related downloadable programs that Amazon has been selling for sometime.

neovive 15y ago
I agree with you here. It appears to be a landing page that consolidates the downloadable Mac software and also tracks and allows redownloading of the software via the library feature.

protomyth 15y ago

Anyone got a developers prospective on this? What needs to be done to your software to make it work? What is the pricing like and payout?

ComputerGuru 15y ago

Link to the Amazon Mac Software store: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231 http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231