Time for a Mac App Store?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 31, 2008 at 3:00am
With the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPod touch products a major success (having topped over 100 million back in September), maybe it’s time for Apple to consider a Mac App Store.
Now I wouldn’t want that to be the only way I could get Mac apps as there’s such a thing as giving too much control to Apple. However, it would be a nice option and would offer benefits such as security and convenience. What’s more, it could offer some serious marketing power for small developers and offer Mac users exposure to more software.
Of course, Mac apps would be much larger in size than iPhone/iPod touch apps. But Apple is already selling 1.5GB-plus movies online. There might be some apps that aren’t good fits, but, again, we aren’t talking about a Mac App Store being the only way to get software.
In fact, it need not be a clone of the App Store for the iPhone or even be run with iTunes. That poses too many limitations required for multimedia stuff. Hopefully, Apple could develop a new app/system (not a browser-based app) that’s similar to iTunes but exclusively for application, application updates, and even potentially operating system updates.
Of course, I also want to see Apple get serious about ebook sales, as well. What do you think?
(And thanks for the assistance of my Macsimum compadre, J. Scott Anderson, with today’s column).
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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