Re:The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
by monkeyfacebag on Thursday July 26, 2012 @12:02PM
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FYI, this is not true for Windows RT (the ARM version). That version will only support applications purchased through MS's store. Given that MS is clearly pushing for Metro to be the future of Windows, I think this is somewhat concerning.
Re:The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
by brudgers on Thursday July 26, 2012 @01:33PM
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On the other hand, Windows on ARM is an extension of the Windows franchise in the same way that WP7 with it's app store is. In a sense it is like talking about the iPad when discussion the Mac App store...or would be if iOS applications ran on the Mac.
Metro is a future of Windows, just as Server Console mode is (though admittedly on a potentially different scale).
Re:The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
by MatthewPhillips on Thursday July 26, 2012 @01:19PM
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> Metro and its app store are only "half" of Windows 8.
The parent said "going the same way". It seems pretty obvious to me that they are deprecating the desktop and Windows 8 is just step 1 of that.
Re:The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance
by brudgers on Thursday July 26, 2012 @01:38PM
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Well of course, it's all in what one believes to be the way Apple is going in regards to the Mac platform. In the context of the original article, that way was toward a walled garden in which the wall was moving and growing higher from a developer's perspective in order to effectively bring more applications in house.
I don't see Microsoft going that way because they give a shit about software developers.
Not exactly. Metro and its app store are only "half" of Windows 8. The other half isn't sandboxed in the walled garden style. To put it another way, Microsoft isn't building the Windows App Store on the back of existing software, but from the ground up using only sandboxed apps.
Microsoft isn't likely to create the sort of moving target for developers that Apple has recently because doing so would not be consistent with the B2B model that underpins their corporate culture.