Amazon's New Mac Download Store Takes On Apple's Mac App Store

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Anyone could setup their own Mac Download Store. It's called a website.

Amazon isn't just anyone.

Would be awesome if Amazon could set up an alternative to the iTunes store. Not sure if that would even be possible. Amazon already has the Android store where you can purchase Android apps. Wonder if they can do it. Is any company currently selling iPhone apps outside of iTunes?

You have to jailbreak to install apps not sold in the App Store, but in that case, Cydia has built an app marketplace.

Amazon could certainly set up a "web app store" that manages web app purchases/authentication; it could run in a sort of "Kindle App for web apps" on the iPhone.

There are a lot of useful apps that would work just fine as web apps but discovery is hard.

A majority of their titles are language learning packs.

Maybe some key software makers like VMWare will step up, I'd like to see Adobe's products there, also - Adobe has horrible DRM and licensing management.

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?&docId=1000691231

It's almost time someone made a meta-store for managing assets across multiple stores. As a side note it appears the Amazon store is reportedly DRM laden [1]. I wonder if this is true for the Mac software as well.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

What are the terms for developers?

Is this only available for larger publishers or can indie developers get in on the game?

Indies too.

I emailed them for the terms, will see how it develops

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