(Adding ubuntu-desktop back to cc) On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Mackenzie Morgan<maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 28 August 2009 6:44:30 am Matthew East wrote: >> I saw that, but the problem is that people will not open the app in >> the first place. I saw the name "Ubuntu Software Store" before I saw >> your email explaining what it was, and it didn't occur to me that it >> could be anything other than a shop (probably a website) for buying >> programs. >> >> The comments on this thread so far have been unanimous about this... > > OK, I'll break it. I didn't assume the Ubuntu App Store would be all for-pay > stuff, since well...the iTunes App Store isn't. There are tons of free > (gratis) programs for iPhones available in there. So why should this App > Store be any different?
Fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and a snap survey of how different people react to this title is not unhelpful, I think. But I'd be disturbed if the conception of "store" in the majority of our users' understanding is affected by a naming scheme handed down by iTunes rather than plain English. It's also probably the case that the iTunes App Store does have much more commercially orientated goals than the Ubuntu Software Store. I haven't got an iPhone, so I hadn't come across this name. I do have a blackberry though. The blackberry equivalent is called "BlackBerry App World". -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
