Amazon Mac App Store?

[Jiva DeVoe]

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/26/amazons-new-mac-download-store-takes-on-apples-mac-app-store/

Interesting stuff! Competition is great!

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[Matthew Frederick]

Jiva wrote:
> http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/26/amazons-new-mac-download-store-takes-on-apples-mac-app-store/
>
> Interesting stuff!  Competition is great!

Excellent, good to see an easy source for such big-name titles, too,
even if it's not as integrated as Apple's Mac App Store.

For those who haven't seen the Bodega Mac app store, check it out.
Like Amazon they can sell stuff that uses system calls and such that
Apple would never approve for it's super-safe store, plus it
integrates much the way Apple's store does, keeping your apps
up-to-date, installing things automatically, etc. It even updates apps
they sell but that you bought elsewhere, like Apple's. Lots of great
indie software:

http://appbodega.com/

-- Matthew

[Matthew Frederick]

FWIW, I have no idea how well Bodega treats devs and such. I did feel
kind of bad for them: they'd been building this thing for months and
Apple pops out the Mac App Store within a week of their launch.