{"id":866,"date":"2012-06-18T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T14:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2012-06-07T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:59:15","slug":"on-buying-mac-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/on-buying-mac-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"on buying Mac apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Rentzch, a Mac developer, wrote an interesting post about the pros and cons of buying Mac apps in the Mac App Store versus buying them directly from the developer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think that he sums up the developer experience really well. \u00a0From an end-user perspective, I think he’s overly dismissive of two major points (easier to buy and install apps, infinitely easier to know when software is updated). \u00a0I think that he also completely leaves aside the point that the MAS gives a lot of visibility to apps that would otherwise be overlooked. \u00a0This is good both for developers — even though the MAS takes a bigger cut of sales than developers would have by selling through other methods, the increase in sales probably more than makes up for it — and for end-users. \u00a0He also doesn’t include the point that developers cannot offer trials via the MAS today, which is negative for end-users. \u00a0For example, I’m using a trial of BusyCal<\/a> right now because I wanted to see if it would fit into my workflow before plunking down $50 for it1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

It’s my hope that many of Rentzch’s points, especially those which are about the current sandboxing<\/a> implementation, will disappear over time, and that the MAS will be a great solution for buying Mac apps.<\/p>\n

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  1. The answer, by the way, is yes. \u00a0It’s certainly miles and miles better than iCal! ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jonathan Rentzch, a Mac developer, wrote an interesting post about the pros and cons of buying Mac apps in the Mac App Store versus buying them directly from the developer. I think that he sums up the developer experience really well. \u00a0From an end-user perspective, I think he’s overly dismissive of two major points (easier … Continue reading on buying Mac apps<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}