Steve Jobs snuffs App-Store-for-Mac rumor
That would be a 'nope'
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Mac OS X users won't be limited to Apple-approved apps as are users of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. So says no lesser light than Steve Jobs himself.
Last Friday, a rumor zipped across the interwebs that the next version of Mac OS X - which will be version 10.7 - would institute an App Storesque "gated community" in which only Apple-blessed software would run on Macs updated to that as-yet-unnamed follow-on to 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
That rumor, first reported by the programmers' consortium Rixstep, was immediately debunked by a developer who pointed out to 9to5Mac that Rixstep's fears of restrictive code signatures were unfounded.
But rumors have legs, whether they're based on reality or not. So one developer decided to check with The Man himself, sending the recently oh-so-reponsive Jobs a personal email asking: "There's a rumor saying there will be a Mac App Store and no software without authorization from Apple will run on Mac OS X. Is that true?"
According to Redmond Pie, Jobs responded in characteristically concise fashion: "Nope."
The email header, as published by Redmond Pie, appears authentic, so it seems that Mac OS X users can now relax. ®
COMMENTS
Beleaguered Apple
Here's an interesting thought before the comedians come barging into the thread.
Suppose that, instead of a shiny new PowerBook G3, you'd bought $5700 worth of Apple stock in 1997.
How much would that stock be worth today? No, you're quite wrong. It's $1.32m.
(http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-stock.php)
Yep, thought that would shut you up.
Okay...
Did anyone actually think Apple would do that? No, really? Apple have worked hard to make Mac OS X a great platform for porting open source software to, a great platform for writing code on.
How was this actually even going to work? How would software get written? On the iPhone/iPad you develop on Mac OS X, how was this going to work?!
It's retarded - are people actually this stupid?!
Depends...
On the Linux front: Ubuntu has something similar (though with free-as-in-beer binaries), where you can click and get. You can do the same in Fedora Core and RHEL by typing "sudo yum -y install {whatever you want/need}*" Other distros have similar bits.
Microsoft does have "Games Explorer" in Windows 7, where you get taken to the web and dropped off in a small marketplace to buy/download games and such. You can also buy upgrades to pricier versions of Windows (e.g. Pro -> Ultimate and the like) from some versions of Windows 7.
On the OSX front, most long-time users (disclosure - including me) just go to versiontracker.com and do our looking around there for free and paid-for (via demo) stuff.
Apple could make a killing off of putting up an App Store for Macs, but minus the walled garden approach... problem is, the tech 'press' doesn't seem interested in exploring this angle (not as dramatic, etc).
Mine's the one with pockets chock-full of burned CDs and DVDs...
* Dunno if Fedora or RHEL has a GUI utility for YUM, since I rarely run it with X turned on.
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