Hi, everyone!
Thanks for your feedback :-)

I think that a lot of great software will not be included to the new app store, because of too severe requirements for the apps.

Well, since it's not out yet, you are just guessing.

Wait until it comes out, and even then I would give it some time so that developers can submit.

Welcome to the website. At least Apple is a reliable company to deal with than with 3rd party apps.

Right
Plus I think there would be even more apps, I suspect that iPhone and iPad apps will be ported over as well, even if they are touch screen apps.

The only ones I think might be an issue are those Big Honking apps, like PS, those that might be to big for down loads ? ?

Welcome Anna.

I think the Appstore will shift Apple's focus even more to regular consumer markets where it is obviously aimed at. Professional market OTOH may not really find much use for it.

Well, Anna has a point. I guarantee you that you won't find a LOT of current software on the App Store. The larger the developer, the less likely they are to give up 30% to Apple. It's really the small developers that will make out like bandits on volume. But the real plus for users is that it will likely usher in a whole new crop of developers selling widget-sized apps for dirt cheap.

So Anna, will Eltima Software be selling apps on the Mac App Store?

Well, not to sure JD.
Some of that 30% that the developers has to (pay) for by them selves - goes to packaging and marketing expensive.

I mean I would rather Apple do he work - instead of me having to package/box and then advertise <-- granted you do lose some control over that aspect.

But a lot of great software is available as 'download only' too, in which case I'd rather the money all goes to the dev than to Apple, so I'd rather buy straight from the dev.

It's like Abebooks vs. Amazon - book sellers have to pay a larger cut to Amazon, so I get my 2nd hand books through Abebooks to help support 2nd hand book sellers.

Devs will have to make their own decisions about the margin cut vs. the potential 'exposure' of having their apps on an app store.

True Pady.

But in a business sense a developer would have to do;

1 - Create a web site to sell their product in a Sea of Millions of Web Sites.

2 - Set up a payment scheme - cost money. Jaz tried setting one up and between VISA and Master Cards was around 3,200 bucks. <-- not sure but did cost some bucks to set up those banks accounts.

3 - Got to do some marketing and pay for it.

Remember the whole reason for the App store is everything is there - Before you had to hunt for apps or at the very least knew where to go via word of mouth.

Also keep in mind that Apple App Store cost some serious bucks, ghee I hate to see even the electrical bill alone for all those servers has got to be enormous. If I remember correctly iTunes was a lost money for years.

Yeah, but nearly every app I've ever downloaded and/or bought I've found through Macupdate. Not that hard to find, and the app store for iphones etc. is a pretty rubbish way to try to search for apps, as you get swamped by the 35,000 that don't do what you want but have similar names.

Nearly all the app developers who sell through the current app store also have websites anyway to publicise their apps. I agree it costs to set up online stores, but it depends how many more copies they think they'll shift through the app store, and whether the loss of profit per copy through the app store is outweighed by the increase in sales.