Mac App Store – My Experience
January 10th, 2011 / Send to Instapaper
  • Roughly 10:44.8m to install 10.6.6 through Software Update…

  • The Mac App Store (by default) is located on the left of the dock, next to the Finder.

  • It was disappointing to see the icon remained unchanged from the iTunes icon.

  • Launching the app was almost instantaneous. No sign-in required, browsing. Angry Birds is *already* the Top Paid App.

  • Testing reliability download speeds. Twitter v2.0 spotted. Before downloading, I was asked to sign-in. Downloaded in less than a minute. Replaced Tweetie. Success!

  • I was curious to see if Cultured Code had Things on sale for the launch of the Mac App Store. I knew the answer, but I wanted to check anyway. Surprisingly the Mac App Store ties-in with your already downloaded Mac Apps and presents you with an “Installed” icon instead of the price. This is not true for all Mac Apps; Pixelmator shows a $29.99 pricetag, which of-course, is already installed on my Mac.

  • Downloaded the free Sketchbook Express by Autodesk.

  • iPhoto ’11 purchased for $14.99 – The download is taking a while. Finished. Download replaced iPhoto ’09 on my iMac.

  • Top Free apps seems to be filled with no rating to very low rating apps. Only a handful of four–five star apps. Top Paid apps seem to have a similar (yet different) trend. Almost all of the apps are not rated, while the ones that are rated don’t drop below 4.5 stars.

  • Despite the rumors, it seems iWork ’09 has yet to be updated to iWork ’11. Although, the suite has been updated to 9.0.5 – Macrumors has the details.

  • I just realized I haven’t been asked for my password since downloading Twitter.

  • TextWrangler replaced TextWrangler.app already installed on my Mac.

  • Thanks to Dave Caolo, I installed Alfred.app. Not sure how (or if) I will use it; I was not a fan of Quicksilver when it came out.

    Update: Stopped using it.

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