Comments on: Do you also fear the Mac App Store?

By: knuthy

knuthy — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:18:06 +0000

I fully agree with you. Apple is going too far, one of my main critics of the iOS is its app store fully controlled by Apple. Censorship is bad for both the developers and the users. They will refurbish their minds as Microsoft did with IE. Mac users will be limited to Apple programs as they are not going to look far off their App Store. Fear….

By: eyuzwa

eyuzwa — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:21:00 +0000

I wonder if the customers will be expecting the $0.99 – $3.99 price point as well for apps..:(The Java thing is strange / depressing..not sure if it’s a response to the Oracle ownership or just the fact that if it’s not in HTML5 or Objective-C “it’s crrraap!”

By: aparadekto

aparadekto — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:51:02 +0000

Hey, I can’t view your site properly within Opera, I actually hope you look into fixing this.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:40:17 +0000

The limitations regarding demo/trial versions, plugins and selling content from the app are mainly in place because Apple might come up with a standardized way to do these. They don’t want it to be a mess from the beginning.The deprecation of Java is quite sad for me, as both of my games are written in Java. Not that you could tell – they use OpenGL for rendering – no ugly Swing UI, 60FPS… but still, no Mac App Store for me…

By: Kaffeefleck

Kaffeefleck — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:57:49 +0000

No. Because its not very exciting! At least for me.I mean – the “Mac App Store” has the same positiv and negativ aspects as the “iOS App Store”. And about the “not verified warning” – Microsoft does the same on Windows (see downloads, firewall, drivers, …). So if you want a free, unrestricted and easy to use app store take a look at the Android Store. But this model has ist own pros and cons.