[CM] subtle exodus from the Mac app store

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject	[CM] subtle exodus from the Mac app store
Followup-To	comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Date	2014-10-22 21:35 +0000
Organization	solani.org
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From the «go indie or go broke» department:
Title: Mac App Store: the subtle exodus
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:38:52 -0400
Link: http://osnews.com/story/27984/Mac_App_Store_the_subtle_exodus

My ultimate fear is that the complacent state of the Mac App Store would lead
to the slow erosion of the Mac indie community. The MAS is the best place to
get your software, it comes bundled with your OS, it's very convenient but when
all the issues compound, developers will vote with their feet and continue the
slow exodus. I feel that Apple needs to encourage the availability of high
quality software rather than quantity over quality - the first step would
addressing the core issues that have been known for years. The Mac platform
would be a much worse place if we prioritise short-term gains, boasting about
the hundreds of thousands of free abandonware rather than concentrate on the
long-term fundamentals to sustain a healthy and innovative ecosystem. It's
finally starting to dawn on people that application stores' primary goal is not
to make the lives of developers easier. No, the one true goal of application
stores is to drive the price of software down to zero or near-zero - and if the
side effect of that is that the independent and small developers who built your
platform go out of business or leave the platform altogether, that's just too
damn bad. It was fun in the short term, when the low-hanging fruits were ripe
for the picking, but everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together
could see the unsustainability of it all. The 'app economy' is pretty close to
bust, and I suspect zero to none of the suggestions listed in this article will
be implemented by Apple. It's not in their interest to raise the prices of
software in their application stores.

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[CM] subtle exodus from the Mac app store RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-22 21:35 +0000
  Re: [CM] subtle exodus from the Mac app store Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-22 16:49 -0700
    Re: [CM] subtle exodus from the Mac app store "D.D." <usenet.xyzzyx@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-10-25 03:11 -0700
      Re: [CM] subtle exodus from the Mac app store Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-25 19:27 -0700

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