[robgough]

When the app store for iOS was released my first thought was that the Mac really needed one of these, mostly based on how easy it is to install things through Linux package managers like apt - and of course updating everything easily was nice too.

Over time (and as my experience with OS X grew) I slowly thought that it was less and less of a deal - and that few people were actually expecting a Mac App store, so I guess I just gave up on the idea.

Now it's here though, I can't believe how obvious it all is. They should have had one of these years ago. I don't think there are even rumours at this point, but Microsoft would be mad to not build one for Windows too.