TextWrangler, to update previous versions with the new version the company released for the store’s opening. The only exception here so far seems to be that the Mac App Store is allowing some free apps, such as Bare Bones’s For starters,Īpple offers no way to transition existing licenses, so you essentially have to re-purchase apps you already own (yes,Įven if they appear as “Installed”) if you want Mac App Store convenience like multi-Mac licensing, easy re-downloading, no license keys to keep track of, and easy updates-which are another potential problem down the road that I’ll get to in a minute. On the other side of the coin, though, Mac App Store pricing is a point of contention among developers. The utility used to sell for $15, but its new price in the store is just $5, and you can’t even download it from the company’s Website anymore. Sophiestication, on the other hand, has madeĬoverSutra, its menu-bar-based iTunes controller, exclusive to the Mac App Store.
“We have chosen the price tiers that were closest to our existing prices for now,” said Peter Maurer, “Creative Madman” at “So our prices are exactly the same as they were before.” Less technically complex iOS apps may do well with bargain-bin, volume-friendly prices, but many Mac apps are a different beast, requiring much more development time and customer service efforts. “The Mac App Store doesn’t change the value of our apps to our customers,” said Ken Case, CEO of The App Store created a “race to the bottom” for $1 iOS apps-will the Mac App Store have the same effect? The developers we spoke with were mostly united in optimism. One of the biggest questions is that of price.
Is Apple’s new store too large to ignore? Is there a market outside of the Mac App Store, or even completely independent of it? What about Apple’s decidedly constricting policies? These are only some of the big questions developers have been wrangling with sinceĪpple announced the Mac App Store in October last year, and some of these questions will only be answered with time. An App Store for the fledgling smartphone market is one thing, but the Mac and its users are no strangers to third-party software. Selling Mac software in the new world with a Mac App Store poses a number of unique challenges. “It enables software products to be more discoverable, and more easily purchased and installed by Mac users.” The transition “It’s a really helpful addition to the Mac Platform,” said Philip Goward, founder of
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