the Mac App Store is Apples answer to bring iOS quality fart apps to the Mac.... and little more.
Things you cannot sell in the App store?
Any program that does not use frameworks and APIs provided by Apple with the OS and Xcode... meaning everything is ObjC and Cocoa only. Any Apps going to multiplatform approaches need not apply, you better have made a specific Mac only version without reusing any code from anything else!
Oh you can also not sell any software through there if it needs a license key, or has any form of copy protection... it must rely on the App Store copy protection.
oh and things like games? well they are ok as long as they don't show any type of violence against humans or animals that including shooting and stabbing... like 90% of games.
What is the App store going to be filled with? Apple programs and a buncha junk like most of the iOS App store. Those things might fly for a phone or pad, but for an actual computer? yeah right...
It will be highly tuned and well governed. All applications/services are sharable, and must pass a rigorous vetting before they are placed in the directory. A chargeback mechanism is in place to cover development costs, and provide incentives to put more applications/services up there — and keep ramping up innovation as well.
Mac App Store screen
What a great service oriented architecture.
We’re talking about Apple Computer’s App Stores, the latest incarnation which will be the Mac App Store opening within the next three months. My colleague Jason Perlow predicts the store is part of a “fully managed, locked down next-generation Apple end-user experience” that will tightly manage software distribution.
Has Steve Jobs captured the essence of the SOA vision that many have been pursuing for the past decade for their enterprises? Well, sort of. There is, after all, the fact that Apple App Stores are tethered to locked-down proprietary hardware and OS stacks, the very antithesis of SOA. No platform and vendor independence anywhere in sight here.
Would a more open, platform-independent approach of the app store concept work at the enterprise level? As noted in previous posts here, Steve Jobs’ business model presents an interesting and organized way to acquire and monetize services and content. In the process, an app store supports an ecosystem of developers and creators, but acts as a governance mechanism to keep out the malicious, duplicate and substandard stuff.
Again, the Apple App Store is not pure SOA by any means. But it is a compelling architecture. Maybe the ‘app store’ concept is something SOA proponents have been doing all along anyway. But Jobs seems to have put it all into one clean, efficient mode. Perhaps that’s one way to explain it to the business in a way they’ll immediately understand.
