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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by Aaronontheweb on Thursday October 18, 2012 @05:34PM (#4671227)
Author here; I love the Mac App Store and want to eventually use MonoMac to port some of my Windows stuff over to it :)

http://www.mono-project.com/MonoMac

I had A LOT of trouble finding publicly available data on how the Mac App Store is used. Sales figures, installs per day, price distribution, etc...

If you know something I don't, post it here and I'll do a follow-up.

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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by eropple on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:04PM (#4671977)
> Author here; I love the Mac App Store and want to eventually use MonoMac to port some of my Windows stuff over to it :)

I personally don't recommend this. I've been a big, big Mono booster over the years, but I have a hard time trusting the developers behind it. (For an illustrative example as to why, take a look at MonoTouch's problems with iOS 6. That bit my employer in the ass. It hasn't happened with MonoMac, but to me there's a "yet" involved.)

As un-sexy as it is, C or C++ seem to be the way to go. It's what I'm doing now, with a platform-appropriate hat on top that uses as little Objective-C (on OS X) as possible.

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Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap... by emehrkay on Friday October 19, 2012 @10:31AM (#4673659)
Wouldn't Windows Store be analogous to the Mac App Store where the "race to the bottom [pricing]" doesn't seem to be a thing?
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