Ondrej Holzman A few minutes ago, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.6, which includes the expected Mac App Store. The update is available as a free download for all Snow Leopard users, so don't hesitate and download it! The update is 151,2 MB.
After downloading and installing Mac OS X 10.6.6, the familiar Mac App Store icon will appear in your dock.
When you launch the application, a store pops up at you not unlike the one in iTunes, i.e. the iOS App Store. After all, we already know it all and we knew in advance how everything should look like.
Of course, you need to log in to make your first purchases and download new apps. Just use an existing account from the iOS App Store.
If you click on an application, you will see the same preview as in the iOS App Store, where you have a description and price of the application, screenshots, information about the publisher and, most importantly, a button for purchase. Buying apps is more than easy. You buy with one button and the new icon will immediately settle in your dock and start downloading. How simple.
Important! Some users are reporting that the Mac App Store is reporting a problem when they try to purchase an app. If you have it, sign out of the Mac App Store, turn it off, sign out of your Mac account, and sign in again. If you are still unable to download and purchase from the Mac App Store, restart your entire computer.
So I downloaded, installed and I'm not very excited.
1. What I feel is a very big problem is the issue of previously purchased applications. Some showed me as installed but not as purchased. And so the solution by paying again and then sending invoices, etc., doesn't seem very "user friendly" to me. So if Apple doesn't solve it on the Apps store side, honestly the whole concept of the Apps Store will be nice for beginners on the Mac, but if someone works on a Mac for some Friday, they'll just use the Apps half way. And I'm not talking about discounted upgrades of previously purchased applications, I think they've been kind of forgotten about.
2. What I personally solve as a problem is that the Apps Store uses an account from iTunes (iOS Store) for payments. However, here I use a personal payment card, because I mostly buy iPhone games and utilities, which I would probably have a hard time explaining at the Tax Office. But I buy apps for the company and therefore pay for them with a company card. So there is a solution, but it's pretty "fujtajbl", because then I'll have to use 2 Apple IDs, one for private purposes and the other for business. Didn't anyone at Apple think that I could have multiple tabs defined in iTunes and switch between them? Just as it is, for example, in Paypal.
3. And iWorks, when the upgrade came out today, it was 99,9% clear that nothing new would come, so unfortunately it's still version '09 :(
4. Otherwise, as for the number of applications, it is much weaker, rather only ports of games and utilities from iOS, but hopefully it will take off in time
Personally, I think that the Apps Store will not have one update in the foreseeable future, because in this form it is at the level of "we promised and published", but otherwise it is a nice weakness.
At least you can download it, it gives me an error :(
Log out, log out of the mac, restart, log in again and it goes ;)
I tried and it's already growling :D thanks :)
Again, I wouldn't see it so hard as a rock, but...
iwork will definitely be presented at the keynote like last time,
the fact that not all licenses work is the fault of the developers. The ones from apple took me away
and there are plenty of apps to start with. it has to be given time.
I don't see that with that card. So the purchase is normally not through the appstore, and it will update you in the appstore anyway.
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in case of download error, it is necessary to delete com.apple.appstore and com.apple.storagent from Cache in Library and restart appstore
So I updated to 10.6.6. and I still have the Czech localization? :-)
add F12:
1. Well, as far as licenses are concerned, I wonder if it will be on the side of the developers. An illustrative case is precisely iWork. I bought them and Apps says Installed. But I don't have iWork in the list of purchased applications. And now I'm just curious what will happen when Apple releases a new version. How will they know that I bought the Pages and not just installed the trial version??? Because in the case of SW Transit, I only have the Trial version installed and Apps, as in the case of Pages, only reports Installed. I really feel like something is wrong here.
2. Well, the card payment is related to point 2. Of course, I can buy it directly on the website, but since there is already a centralized Store, I would like to have it all here. And I'm not at all sure that just in case I buy it elsewhere, that information will somehow be transferred to the Store. So we're just halfway there.
3. iWork - well, I'm not too attached to the upgrade, I just think that the time has come for the upgrade :) and the introduction of Apps was a pretty good moment when they could come up with it. But all in all, it's a blast and I wouldn't dissect it any further.
I'm not saying a priori that the Apps Store is a bad thing, I was quite looking forward to it, but the mistakes here are very big, in my opinion.
It will be interesting to see the consequences of purchasing applications through the Mac App Store. All Czech Apple partners will lose income from the sale of Apple SW. I would be very surprised if Apple would compensate them somehow. In the same way, larger companies like Adobe and MS will be reluctant to use the Mac App Store in order not to undermine their own partner network. It indirectly follows that initially it will be mainly for personal use, professional applications will still go through the existing channels. That they would come up with some trade compensation? I don't know, probably they will only have support in the future.
But I think it's good. This is also revolutionary on the Mac App Store, you will only pay for what is needed and not for shuffling through boxes, as has been the case with some software so far. If support is needed, I'm happy to buy it, otherwise there's no reason to pay locally for someone to hand me a box of software.
And it works great for me, I bought a few apps for testing, smooth and simple. It's great, I like it a lot.
The Mac App Store is unlikely to be used by companies like Microsoft or Adobe. Apple would either have to change its license agreement or Microsoft and Adobe would have to submit to Apple's demands. Here are some conditions:
1/ Applications that crash or show errors will be rejected.
2/ No third party installers allowed.
3/ Applications requiring license keys or having their own protection implemented will be rejected.
4/ Applications that do not use the elements provided by the system, such as buttons and icons, correctly and that do not comply with the "Apple Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines" will be rejected.
…and to add to the consequences, the price of Aperture went from USD 200 to USD 80! That's not bad, hopefully other manufacturers will understand that applications are cheaper here :)
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1101/11010610appleapertureapp.asp
Does anyone happen to know if these are SEPA payments or if they are domestic payments?
I have SEPA payments for 250 on my account, which would make the application quite expensive :D
I have a student account from ČSOB, so if anyone has experience...