| > Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu and many others are self-destructing in an effort to imitate Apple's design without understanding it I'd go so far to say that the desktop App Store is a BAD idea. 1. It was meant to make mobile more free, and now makes desktops less free. It was born out of things like Brew on the old, old cellular market. Mobile content used to be as free as a concentration camp, and in order to appease them, Apple said "we'll do your content management for you". That was a huge deal step forward, but it obviously wasn't enough or people wouldn't jailbreak their phones. 2. It is not sustainable over the long haul. Centralized app management is not a long-sustainable model for the desktop, or anything for that matter. You cannot continue to micromanage that much software without things eventually deteriorating. Apps require maintenance or removed as hardware and the OS changes. 3. The user experience sucks. It puts all the installed apps in its own area (LaunchPad) in addition to the AppStore app where you see what you bought, and both in addition to the previously widely known Applications directory/folder. That's just stupid. Why do people want to emulate that mess? 3. But it survives for now because it is profitable. I've bought more apps in OS X using the App Store than I would have in a store or via some other online delivery mechanism or Amazon, etc. But, none of all of that would have been as terrible, if it hadn't spread to Ubuntu. Seeing similar there was a huge WTF moment. |