It’s been a week, are you still using the Mac App Store?
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The Mac App Store launched last Thursday to some fanfare from Apple but to more confusion from users as to what its purpose ultimately was.
What I’ve seen personally has been a lot of issues with exactly what a platform like iOS seeks to solve – diversity. People were reporting on, for instance, Angry Birds’ page that the application was functioning poorly on certain Mac Books. Cnet has talked about how there are some issues with the Mac App Store on NTFS partitions.
Then you get into the issues that happen on any more open platform than iOS – piracy. The Mac App Store appears to include a similar anti-piracy scheme as used on the iOS App Store, which would be fine, except that there are many more tools available to someone to look into the schemes utilized on an actual computer. Is that going to effect the willingness of companies to put their applications through the hoops required by Apple rather than use their own anti-piracy measures?
So, it’s been a week, are you still using the Mac App Store?