On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:32 PM, objectwerks inc <[email protected]>wrote:
> Another example is the Mac App Store. People immediately think that Apple > will close the system and all Apps will have to go through the Mac App > Store. Apple knows better than to do that on the Mac. It is easier on a > system like the iPhone to do that than it is for a general purpose computer > that only has 10+ years on the market (OS X) and 26 years by name (Macintosh > / 1984). A computer is not a tablet is not a phone. Apple is the only one who seems to fully appreciate that, therefore it would seem strange to expect 100% of the iOS experience to become the norm on a notebook. Proof: He specifically mentioned they played with touch screens on notebooks and found it didn't work well. > The Mac App Store intrigues me but unfortunately they won't take apps that > are on a subscription basis (even if the renewal goes through them it seems) > if I read the guidelines correctly, and my app I want to get out the door is > a specialty app that instead of charging several hundred dollars for I > wanted to charge a yearly $30-$40 for... > Can you do what MLB does, and just have MLB 2009 for $15, MLB 2010 for $15, etc? The biggest issue is if your app stores data, how to migrate that, but there seems to be enough apps using Dropbox to sync these days that it must be pretty easy to code. :)
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