Monday, December 6, 2010
The next gold rush for developers is just about here. First it was the iPhone and iPod Touch. Then it was the even more popular iPad. Now, the Mac is getting back into the action with the opening of the Mac App Store. Developers will now have power and ability beyond what they ever had on the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad could have ever given them. When Steve Jobs announced this store he said it would be native to OS X Lion but we would be getting an earlier release sometime within the next 90 days. Well, it’s just about been 90 days in a few weeks so are we looking at a great Christmas present to all Mac owners or is this another White iPhone mash up?
From the looks of things, Apple is actually a bit ahead of schedule according to a few inside sources. What the sources are saying is that Apple is pushing developers to get their apps ready by today and then hoping to get the Mac App Store launched by the December 13th timeframe. If anything, this would definitely bring in those holiday numbers Apple is famous for during this time of year. It would also raise my wish list to several Mac App Store gift cards.
There are a few skeptic points to this vendetta (and by skeptic points, I mean difficult facts). The biggest one being that the Mac App Store would require, not recommend but require, a new update to Mac users for software and MacRumors has already reported that Mac OS 10.6.6 has been seeded to Apple developers so this may not be our luck for getting those couple thousand perfect gifts that we’ve been looking forward to. But this is the time of holidays and miracles. Maybe it just might happen and we also might see a White iPhone after all.
