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#100
Originally Posted by uppercase View Post
I don't know the future, you could be right, I just don't see the need for appstores on desktops.
Most software is like photoshop - used by professionals and have total control of the market.
In a way, Adobe already has their own 'appstore' with their online sales and auto updater.

And I'm sure when MS launches their Windows-8's appstore launches, Adobe will be there to peddle their wares to the masses out there through that venue.

Other, like firefox and vlc also dominate.
And they will benefit from the increased exposure and accessibility provided by the AppStore.

Currently, they need to advertise a certain URL to the masses somehow and do some 'normal' marketing, to get the 'normal' people on their bandwagon, and hope that they're enticed somehow to go to the URL, go through the download process, run the installer AND hopefully positions the binary/shortcut in a memorable place so they can rerun it in the future.

People don't look for applications anymore. The basic set fills almost all tasks. The exception to the above is games, those are being installed all the time, new ones appear, and not a single one dominates. An appstore just for games would make sense.
The basic sets are... pretty basic.

For example, in iOS appstore you can find LOADS of great 3rd party calendar, todo, memo, outliners, etc; most of which are better than those I've seen on maemo.

Of course people have different needs, requirements and standards. If someone feels that the basic is adequate for his needs, then that's fine... but maybe he doesn't know that others may have higher requirements, needs and standards than him.

And yes, a section for games in the appstore would make sense. So does sections for: productivity, graphic design, navigation, utilities, business apps, news, references, etc.

As of now there is no one app store that must be used with any of the desktop OSs. People won't give up freedom that they already have - to install whatever, whenever.
People want to buy/acquire software conveniently and to install the apps easily on their devices, whenever they want to.

They can do that easily on the iOS AppStore, Android's market, and Mac App Store. What 'freedom' are they missing exactly?

Phone makers want to control whatever they can, but users already unlock and break because those appstores, as fun and convenient as they might be, are the opposite to freedom. Some people don't care about freedom, untill they need some app, and they'll break the phone to get it.
So even now, those appstores with all their reported success and billions of downloads, don't tell the true story of how many phones are jailbroken and rooted to avoid the appstores, and what is the percentage of users that don't want an ecosystem.
Jailbroken phones don't lose their access to the official AppStore.

My iPhone is jailbroken because I use some utilities and hacks from Cydia (the alternative appstore), yet all my apps are legitimate. I don't use jailbreak to pirate, and I know there are quite a few jailbreaker that does this.

Those that jailbreak to pirate usually are strapped for cash or whatever.

Some of the things I've paid for from the AppStore:
- GPS nav apps for the places I visit (north america, europe, asia).
- Geotagger, to create gpx and catalog them; to be 'synced' with cameras without GPS.
- Diving apps: dive logger (logs the data from my dive computer), dive planner.
- Some golf apps
- Kindle, Zinio

I don't think those are craps.
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