mac-app-store

Will LAMA and red Curtain come to the Mac App Store?

Maybe.

1. They have to pass Apple’s App Store Guidelines.
2. The Mac App Store has to pass my guidelines.

It is possible, that LAMA does not meet these guidelines, due to the black windows which are a kind of custom ui-element, this is not allowed. But at the moment it is unknown how Apple will handle such stuff in practice.

More important are the following messages:

1. Existing customers will be supplied with updates, free of charge. I will not cash you twice, just because the reseller has changed.
2. Pricing: the 70/30 share hurts. I will try to leave the retail price unchanged.
3. I won’t drop prices.

The Mac App Store — personal opinion from a developers perspective

Maybe the concept is not so bad. But it must not become the only source for Macintosh Applications. It is quite likely that it will. People do not look for alternatives, once they have the App Store.

I guess, Lion will make it like hell to install applications from other sources. (This application is not signed by the App Store – Continue?)

It feels, my rights on my own property are being stolen — no applications that require root privileges, no installation of kernel extensions, and so on. This is quite ok for unexperienced users who just want a working system, but my personal experience is that users new to the Mac first fail in iTunes and not by messing around with kernel extensions.

1. It will ruin prices of Apps (shouldn’t we call it “Application”?). Live will be hard for indie-developers.
2. There will be cracks. There will be one crack cracking all Applications in the App Store.

Well, nobody can look into the future, the strategy is the following:

When the Mac App Store will be a great success and people will stop browsing the web for software (and download, install, try and buy it) then I will try to bring my products to the Mac App store.