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tyng
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Mac App Store: Open for Business
Wow, this is a major step towards creating an uniform marketplace for not just mobile and tablet but also traditional computers. It does seem like a natural next step, it should even have happened earlier, how come nobody thought of it until today?
ig1
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Steam have run an app store for sometime now
trotsky
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The lindows desktop software marketplace was online in 2002 (if not earlier):
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9489846614.html
Steam Store also opened it's doors in 2002:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)
tyng
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Broadband speed being one reason it didn't happen earlier I suppose, payment infrastructure is another one
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