Mac App Store highlights "apps for the creative home"

Speaking purely from personal experience, the Mac App Store is priced well out of the realm of impulse buying for me.

On iOS about 90% of the apps I can decide instantly if I want to pay the price for the app or not. The remaining ones might take a day or two because the price is low I don't have to work too hard to justify it. On the Mac App Store the prices are so high (justifiably or not) that it takes me days to decide if I even want to consider the app. It took me two weeks to decide to buy a $13 app and I am only partially happy with the app now that I have it.

Mac App Store purchases can carry a lot more regret so they are much harder to jump on.

The App Store was OK for a while, until it got inundated and impossible to find anything. So MacApp's slowness to engorge itself is a good thing.

What baffles me is Apple's refusal to do something as simple as sending emails mentioning new products. I'd love a weekly customized reminder that certain types of music/wireless utils/FTP clients are now available.

You can do that with computers, can't you?

re Transmit, it's stellar. Interarchy served me well for a decade but Transmit finally gives me exactly what I've wanted all along: an transparent extension of my desktop into FTPland.

I still can't access the App Store. After disabling third party apps. (as instructed by the Apple Support site), I can't log in which means I can't access any of the apps. Not a bad thing necessarily as I've lived lo these many years with non-Apple-based download site.

I want more games games games!

It's fun and entertaining apps which are always top of the charts on the iOS App Store.

Ahh the irony! Probably was added the day after I looked.

Ended up with FileZilla from SourceForge.

I agree with those below, it will mostly be used by new users in the first few years. The rest of us have most of what we use already. I do look forward to server extensions though.

On another note, pricing. I grabbed Lego Harry Potter for iOS at $6, the Mac Appstore version is $60. There are a few more features but 10 times the price for the same experience. I can see resistance to that, especially from people who start with iOS.

I believe in a year or two prices will crumble. It will take time and start with pressure from iOS users.

Would be great if the 10.5.8 users COULD access and purchase from the Mac App Store...

Really NOT seeing a real reason to update to 10.6 or having to spend a whole bunch to get the many apps here up to 10.6 usability.

I am sure others are in the same boat.

I still don't know why Apple doesn't allow its users to create an in app page that highlights app that the user recommends. Often I am asked what apps I use. If I could build such a page, then all I would have to do is send a link.

I think the Mac App Store isn't taking off as fast because people already have apps. I'd only owned my Mac for 5 months when the Mac App Store was introduced but I already owned Aperture, iWork, iLife '11, Things, , and a number of others.

Contrast that to iOS before the App Store where nobody had apps.

In addition the generally higher prices, while justified, do make impulse buys less common.

In the long term I will be buying my software via the Mac App Store, but I haven't seen the need to do so yet.

"the Mac App Store isn't taking off quite as meteorically as the iOS store did"

I would have to say that that is to be expected. There are many existing content delivery paths today for OSX and they didn't all just dry up overnight. I believe that the App Store will flourish.

I have wanted to grab something from the Mac AppStore but everytime I try 1) what I need isn't there anyway (like an FTP client) or is far more than I'm willing to spend to see if it is what the blurb says 3) I already have it and refuse to buy it again just for a few extra features.

Mind you I still use Adobe CS3 cause I can see no compelling features in 4 or 5. Actually in that case some things like indesign got more broken.