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Re:Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store by nicky0 on Saturday January 03, 2015 @04:31AM (#8830331)
Impossible on the Mac App Store, but perfectly possible on the Mac. Which is the appropriate comparison. Tim's web browser wasn't released on the NeXT App Store, after all.
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Re:Benefits of Selling Outside the Mac App Store by pavlov on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:57AM (#8830649)
Well, yes, web browsers are possible on the Mac. They are probably the most commonly downloaded type of Mac app.

Which begs my original question: what good is a "Mac app store" that can't accommodate Mac apps?

Apple isn't alone in this, of course. The Windows 8 app store (Marketplace, or whatever it's called these days) is just as limited... But really, if the most apt comparison for the MAS is the Windows 8 store, that further illustrates just how badly Apple has blown it.

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