A Whole New Way of Working...

As I'm sure most of you are aware, there's this company called Apple, who have a lot of technological devices, and they have something called the App Store. And today, they launched the App Store for Mac.

Now, seeing as I'm a glass half-empty kinda person, I thought it would flop, and go horrifically wrong. Already, within a day, I know that this is gonna be big. It's the new way of gaining software and applications for a computer.

Now we've seen this before, with Steam for PC and Mac. But not on a scale of what we're about to see unfold. Yes, it's a little bare at the minute, and not everything is particularly cheap - Aperture 3 retails at nearly 50 quid. But the ease of being able to download things, and use them within seconds, rather than waiting for that disc to arrive from Amazon, is going to be what makes this a world beater.

It's available in more than 90 countries, with over 1,000 apps available from launch earlier this afternoon. Obviously, this will grow, and Apple will hope it will in such a way that it has taken off with the iPhone and iPod App Stores, with now over 300,000 apps available to download after just under 2 years. Phenomenal.

And having gained a massive increase in market share in 2010, Apple will be hoping 2011 can be the year of the Mac, year of the iPhone, iPad and iPod, and another year of Apple. With 3.84m Macs bought in Q4 of 2010, something is really about to become even bigger than before. Keep your eye on this one, because Steve Jobs is about to get everywhere all over again.

I love Steve Jobs. And Apple, for that matter.

And yes, today was a good day. A very good day.

http://gmoai.posterous.com/a-whole-new-way-of-working email Taken from General Musings of an Idiot: http://gmoai.posterous.com