Re: [Fed-Talk] Well is there going to be an Enterprise App store?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Well is there going to be an Enterprise App store?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Well is there going to be an Enterprise App store?
- From: Jerry Blackmon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:11:16 -0400
Found this pearl out on the interwebs:
Joe_Winfield_IL33p· 5 hours ago
I couldn't agree more with those singing the praises of the Mac App Store. There will be an explosion in inexpensive applications. No fart/flashlight apps, but simple games and widgets that are otherwise free and ad supported online today. Beyond the trust factor, users don't think twice about one-click shopping. Apple has proven this over the last decade with iTunes and the iOS App Store.
Another benefit is direct installation from the a centralized cloud location. Because Apple keeps track of purchases, the Apps will follow users from one device to the next. Your NEXT Mac purchase will be a login away from having all your applications automatically downloaded. Apple is taking down a fence to build a wall of stone around its users. I believe that one of the many reasons for repeated iPhone purchases is the fact that a user would be forced to abandon purchased software to start over with another platform. Now, they have extended this benefit to the Mac. While Mac software has been incompatible with Windows forever, the number of purchases will skyrocket with this MAS. Even if the dollars spent are minimal, people won't want to abandon the volume of proprietary apps that they are likely to consume.
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I don't think lock-in is necessarily the point. It's more a consequence, perhaps unintended. Apple doesn't need lock-in to keep customers, its attention to design does that just fine thank you.
No, I think the main point of the Mac App Store is this:
I need x application. Check the app store. Ah, there it is. Click the icon, it jumps to your dock, double click it, you're using the application.
How does that work on Windows? I need x application. Hmm. Google it. Comb through the first few pages of results for one that's actually relevant. Okay, that might work. Go to developer's website. Wait for the flash interface to load. Click through five or six poorly designed pages. Ah, here we are. What are these system requirements? Check the hardware to make sure you comply. Click the buy link. Five more pages of verifying credit card information. Credit card declined? Call my bank. An hour on the phone with the bank, back to the vendor's site (your zip code was a digit off) and click submit. Session has timed out? WTF. Back through the five pages of verifying information again. Card accepted. Download begins. Download ends. WhereTF is my file? Fish around looking for it. Ah, there it is. Double click the icon. Oh, the developer wrote its own inscrutable installer. Click through five pages of ads and the software finally starts installing. Wait for it to finish. Click out of whatever garbage screen it throws up at the end of the process. So where did it go? Fish around in the Start Menu until you find it. Click it. it craps out on launch. WTF? Make some changes to some system setting it doesn't like. Back to the start menu, click it again. It launches.
Which would you choose? I'm not even gonna get started on "open" OSes.
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Jerry Blackmon <email@hidden>
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." -- Soren Kirkegaard
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