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Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps by astrodust on Monday August 21, 2017 @11:46AM (#15065383)
Apple's store is not a complete failure, there's some very good apps in there, but it's cluttered and disorganized.

The biggest hurdle in the macOS App Store is the stiff sandboxing rules that make the more exotic and often useful utilities incompatible.

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Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps by hungerstrike on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:25PM (#15066077)
Do you think Adobe doesn't put the real Photoshop in Apple's Mac app store because of sandboxing?

Nope. The really big hurdle is the 30% cut that Apple wants to take.

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Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps by astrodust on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:08PM (#15067423)
It's not in Adobe's best interest to hand over that portion when they have proven demand for their product and a distribution system (Adobe Cloud) of their own.

For smaller devs the store should provide a better marketing and sales platform, and so be worth the 30% cut. Steam, as an example, seems to work out alright for most companies but not everyone.

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Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps by Synaesthesia on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:02PM (#15066342)
It certainly contributes. Rewriting an app as complex as photoshop for the App Store would be a daunting task.
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