I'd say this assessment is largely spot-on. By introducing the App Store, Apple could channel the large community of developers churning out commodity software for iOS towards the Mac. Now they just need to make porting from iOS to MacOS X really simple, and the ecosystem will flourish.
One addendum, though: Existing applications won't benefit from the App Store, yes. Existing Mac developers, though, probably will. If you know Cocoa forwards and backwards, then making little (store-exclusive!) apps isn't challenging, but potentially lucrative.
Yup, brilliant (although unsurprising) move on Apple's part. By bringing iOS and OS X together (from a developer standpoint), they're able to seed iOS with Mac developers and Mac OS with iOS developers, and attract more folks overall to both platforms.
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I'd say this assessment is largely spot-on. By introducing the App Store, Apple could channel the large community of developers churning out commodity software for iOS towards the Mac. Now they just need to make porting from iOS to MacOS X really simple, and the ecosystem will flourish.
One addendum, though: Existing applications won't benefit from the App Store, yes. Existing Mac developers, though, probably will. If you know Cocoa forwards and backwards, then making little (store-exclusive!) apps isn't challenging, but potentially lucrative.
Yup, brilliant (although unsurprising) move on Apple's part. By bringing iOS and OS X together (from a developer standpoint), they're able to seed iOS with Mac developers and Mac OS with iOS developers, and attract more folks overall to both platforms.