The Next Generation Application Store: Now, With Developers!
The funny thing about application stores is that Linux has had them for years. Ok, not a store, in the proper sense of that word, given that commercial transactions were not generally provided for. But the basic ability to aggregate applications for the purposes of centralized discovery and installation has been a core feature of major distributions since at least the late 90’s. Which makes it funny that I couldn’t pay vendors to talk to me about pressing this advantage. Piece after piece after piece after piece was met by crickets. Till even I more or less stopped talking about it.
It took iTunes and its billion applications sold to change things. Volume, as ever, wins. Thanks, Apple! With “there’s an app for that” now a part of the common man’s vernacular, executives from mobile to mainframe are scrambling for their own stores, their own apps, their own revenues. As well they should. Because, as Linux users like Tim have known all along, it’s just a Good Idea.
Just not as good as it eventually could be, if someone cares to connect all of the dots.
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