Abisola Fatokun

If you are – like me – continually struggling to keep abreast of your RSS feed subscriptions for technology news, then you probably – like I do – consume lots of news about Apple.

The recent announcement of the Mac App Store is a welcome one and is one that has been making the rumour rounds for a long while. Looking at this from the perspective of the overwhelming success of the iOS app store, it only makes sense for Apple to provide a similar means for generating even more revenue whilst attracting even more developers to the Apple fold as a result of better chances of visibility for smaller applications.

I welcome this.

Interestingly, one other problem that this solves is that of the state of application installation on the Mac at the moment. I’ve always thought that installing applications was one of the more difficult things to do on a Mac and I’ve had many a frustrating moment teaching a newbie to Mac OS how to install software and trying to explain why the installation process was so counter-intuitive.

At last, Mac users in the non-techie demographic will be able to find and install software just as easy as they can on the iOS devices they (probably) already own.

I’ve got to admit that I’m excited about this new store. Not as a consumer, mind you, as I won’t be spending a lot of money buying software I reckon, but instead as a potential Mac developer who can build an app that does one thing and does it really well who then doesn’t have to worry about how to market his software.

Is this the death knell for MacHeist and other software bundling products? Quite possibly.