The ‘problem’ they’re trying to solve (as I understand it) is not keeping up with the Jones’ in terms of easy it is for the average J. Doe to download things from Apple’s App Store with confidence that it won’t contain malware or corrupt their system. Not a bad thing in itself, but the mistake (as I understand) it is forcing it as the ‘one true path’ at the expense of the general desktop experience.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 25 September 2013 9:29 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Mark II On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Scott Barnes <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Good straw-man test to undertake - how many times a day you check the AppStore in Windows 8.1 .. You're dead right. Moreover I don't really know what problem the Windows 8 app store is solving. It has never been hard to obtain/install software for Windows. The app store on iPhone was revolutionary because it was a total PITA to get apps onto a phone prior to it and the quality of what was there (syncing apps onto Windows Mobile etc) was pretty bad. David. Click here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
