I also see the danger of downward pricing pressure, since the mobile AppStore sets a precedence. And then AppStore Mac might increasingly be seen as the only display window for software, without leaving much room for separate framing and marketing. It transforms apps into something more like dumbed-down content.
Just taking the same share ratio of 70 / 30 from the mobile to the desktop space also doesn't seem favorable, since the mobile space used to be a much more walled garden, where it was an accomplishment to make distribution work at all. That is not the case on the desktop.
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I also see the danger of downward pricing pressure, since the mobile AppStore sets a precedence. And then AppStore Mac might increasingly be seen as the only display window for software, without leaving much room for separate framing and marketing. It transforms apps into something more like dumbed-down content.
Just taking the same share ratio of 70 / 30 from the mobile to the desktop space also doesn't seem favorable, since the mobile space used to be a much more walled garden, where it was an accomplishment to make distribution work at all. That is not the case on the desktop.
It transforms apps into something more like dumbed-down content.
How about "appliances?" Really, the ordinary non-tech end user wants something more like an appliance, and less like a software project.