Sure, that's how it looks today, but being in the App Store will be a huge draw, and tons of people will rework their apps to be App Store compatible.
In a few years once most apps have been pushed onto the App Store, they'll be in a far better position to cut them off, making the excuse of "This will only affect a small number of apps..."
While I agree that right now, it's infeasible for them to do this, a few years of the Mac App Store will change the landscape to a point where they very well could do this.
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Sure, that's how it looks today, but being in the App Store will be a huge draw, and tons of people will rework their apps to be App Store compatible.
In a few years once most apps have been pushed onto the App Store, they'll be in a far better position to cut them off, making the excuse of "This will only affect a small number of apps..."
While I agree that right now, it's infeasible for them to do this, a few years of the Mac App Store will change the landscape to a point where they very well could do this.
It would be a case of "This will affect a relatively small number of hugely important apps that we can't afford to lose from the platform".
They're not going to feel free to lose Adobe, Matlab, Steam, VMWare, Parallels, and AutoCAD just because they have a million fart apps.