Comments on: We need a PC App Store

By: PCap

PCap — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:55 +0000

http://www.programbay.co.kr has been around for 2 years

By: Tarek Demiati

Tarek Demiati — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:56:00 +0000

http://www.allmyapps.com has been around for 2 years,
there are a few other similar services …

By: andyroo

andyroo — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:39:40 +0000

doesn’t ubuntu pretty much have one already?

By: T

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:47:57 +0000

I use Valve’s ‘Steam’ platform as my PC app store. It was release over 5-6 years ago, setting the pace for things like Apple’s copycat app store.

By: Crux

Crux — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:40:08 +0000

If there was ever a way to do anything comparable to the iPhone app store it would probably have to be presented through the Zune in some form. They have the XNA studios, now if only The Zune HD could take full advantage of it. I’m hoping so.

By: Core

Core — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:24:36 +0000

I think before you try and apply the App Store ideology to the PC consumer base, you have to take a hard look at the App Store and how it works. You have to factor in how many apps are duplicates with minor variations between them and then work out how many of them are sucessful.

As mentioned, Google is a good App Store on it’s own. It’s been long established that if you think there’s a program for what you want, it probably exists and if it costs money to use / buy, then there’s probably a free verson a few hits lower.

Oh and Piracy too. The PirateBay at times represents the largest app store in existance.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:59:22 +0000

Ahsan is right.

The assumption that the iPhone App Store model is applicable to all situations is misguided. If you are unable to make your app discoverable with Google, the most powerful navigation tool ever devised, it’s going to sink in an App Store catalogue as well. And many, many PC download portals already exist.

Releasing something on the App Store (or any other portal) does not automatically make it successful, as lots of people have found out the hard way by now.

By: woodins

woodins — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:22:25 +0000

Valve is a good idea, but how does Gabe and crew transform a business model that is targeted, to be fair, at hardcore gaming geeks into a all pervasive all singing all dancing app store like the Apple one?

By: Ian Osborne

Ian Osborne — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:11:01 +0000

I can see how this might work once the momentum has been built up, but tempting consumers away from Download.com and convincing developers they’ll be on to a good thing by choosing a distribution method that costs them 30% of their revenue is a big ask.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:54:06 +0000

Ahsan the”internet” fails, because it is fragmented.

A friend of mine has spent several year writing a PC App. However he has no route to market. So all his work is for nothing and his App just gets ignored. If he had written it for the iPhone he would be minting it.

Once you created a working PC App store loads of new apps would come out of the woodwork. There would be an explosion of creativity.