{"id":8,"date":"2008-09-05T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:12:09","slug":"why-isnt-there-an-app-store-for-my-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/05\/why-isnt-there-an-app-store-for-my-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn’t There an App Store for My Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, despite the plethora of random crap that has shown up on the iTunes App Store<\/a>, the ability to go to one place and search for applications has a certain appeal. It got me to thinking more generally about the App Store and digital distribution more generally. Between WiiWare<\/a>, Xbox Live Arcade<\/a>, the Playstation Store<\/a>, GameTap<\/a>, and Steam<\/a> (which unfortunately does not support the Mac), there are a plethora of ways to get games onto your PC, console, iPod, or iPhone. ..<\/p>\n

So I guess part of the answer is that my Mac, unlike my iPhone does not require a specific digital distribution method. I can download as many applications as I like from the Internet. I can purchase them through individual websites. My applications can update themselves through built-in automatic update features. But it just feels different. There is something appealing to having those updates brought to my attention regardless of if I open an application. I can use my existing iTunes account to make payments or purchase new software.<\/p>\n

So while it might not be all that necessary, I do wonder why Apple hasn’t done something like this? There is an appeal to it that I can’t quite put my finger on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, despite the plethora of random crap that has shown up on the iTunes App Store, the ability to go to one place and search for applications has a certain appeal. It got me to thinking more generally about the App Store and digital distribution more generally. Between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,46,118],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discontinutity","tag-app-store","tag-digital-distribution","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caseyodonnell.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}