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Apple to hold 'Back to the Mac' event on October 20th

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Okay, is it just me, or is there not a major problem with the Mac App Store?

Let's say I've got an application that I currently sell for OSX through my website and brick and mortar stores. Let's say it costs $50 and currently sells well.

Why TF would I put it on the App Store and give Apple 30%? Yeah, it'll get me exposure, but why wouldn't I put up a crippled demo version for free, then direct everyone to my website for the full $50 version?
 
Kaido said:
lol @ the 70/30 split for OSX App Store. A domain costs $10 a year and a website is $13 a month nowadays.

buuuuuut...most people are non-nerdy - I can see my parents/grandparents totally loving the OSX App Store, easily finding apps - so having the ability for customers to easily find your software might be easily worth the profit sharing, even though it's kind of ridiculous lol.
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App Store wins because of impulse purchases. Thus, the apps also have to be cheap (< $10).
 
I expected that OS X Lion would be out around WWDC '11.

What I'm really disappointed in is this presentation. I don't think there was any need to preview the things in 10.7 aside from the App Store since they're going to launch it soon.

I was really expecting a more detailed discussion of 10.7 but I suppose that will have to wait until WWDC '11. This should have been just a iLife/App Store/MBA preview with no mention of 10.7.

And I definitely won't be buying a MBA until I see a firewire port. I would rather have 1 USB/1 FW or 2 USB/1 FS instead of 2 USB/SD Card reader. Although the 1440x900 display is definitely enticing. I'm thinking that will make it's way in to the 13 MPB now, though.
 
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Boxee Box out next month...11.6" Apple laptop...if they can do a CDMA iPhone, my nerd life will be complete 😀
 
bearxor said:
I expected that OS X Lion would be out around WWDC '11.

What I'm really disappointed in is this presentation. I don't think there was any need to preview the things in 10.7 aside from the App Store since they're going to launch it soon.

I was really expecting a more detailed discussion of 10.7 but I suppose that will have to wait until WWDC '11. This should have been just a iLife/App Store/MBA preview with no mention of 10.7.

And I definitely won't be buying a MBA until I see a firewire port. I would rather have 1 USB/1 FW or 2 USB/1 FS instead of 2 USB/SD Card reader. Although the 1440x900 display is definitely enticing. I'm thinking that will make it's way in to the 13 MPB now, though.
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My guess is you'll never see Firewire on the Air.
 
great form factor on the air, but core 2 and only 2gb of ram? seems like 2007 specs. they couldn't go with i3 or zactac and up the ram a bit and accomplish the same thing?
 
The only thing that bugs me about the 11.6" Air is the 16:9 screen...

I really don't want to see that making it's way to anywhere else in the lineup.

Did you guy see the 'Software Reinstallation Flash Drive' that comes with the new Airs?
 
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