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Selling Software in iTunes » The Progress Bar — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:48:28 +0000

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Solving Software Purchases the iTunes Way — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:23:42 +0000

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By: Neil Anderson

Neil Anderson — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:31:56 +0000

Great idea! I like the thought of watching a video explaining the software’s benefit and maybe a how-to tutorial.

By: Apple

Apple — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:18:09 +0000

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By: azzamallow

azzamallow — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:47:02 +0000

hmmm, in seems the everyone wants everything to go through itunes these days :P It’s becoming the gateway to all things good it seems.

I like the idea, not through itunes. Conceptually it does not make sense to put it in there. Maybe a dedicated “applications” application, which would manage all installations and allow you to download new ones? even update existing software? that would make more sense to me. Sharing your itunes login would make sense.

my 2 cents….

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:38:57 +0000

@17 Most apps can be downloaded now. I downloaded CS3 Premium (all 4GB) from Adobe.com instead of opting for retail packaging. It downloaded relatively smoothly using a web browser – I’d imagine it could be even better using a better interface that could handle staring/stopping the download and maybe multiple download sources.

By: Brian Rice

Brian Rice — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:35:50 +0000

@17 I don’t think it’d affect the experience at all. Downloading applications would be initiated from the main interface, but occur in a separate one. Downloading could be paused and resumed, as well as throttled for bandwidth.

Additionally, you could utilize something like integrated bittorrent for downloading currently popular applications to speed download time. The end-user wouldn’t have to be aware. Configurations options would be in the preferences alongside an option to disregard bittorrent downloading entirely (though not set by default!)

By: Matt Radel

Matt Radel — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:31:12 +0000

I think this could work for smaller (and cheaper) apps that are comparable to a song in filesize. But if you got the big fish in there, it’d kill the experience. Imagine downloading CS3 that way…

By: steve

steve — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:47:24 +0000

would you pay full price for half a sandwhich?
would you buy a ford for the price of a porche?

then why pay full price for half quality music?

what happens if you buy something other than an ipod? either your music is no good anymore or you have to re encode already compressed music, exponentially compressing it and making the quality horrible.

I say no thanks to that.

By: gspence

gspence — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:24:42 +0000

As nice of a pipe dream as it is in my opinion it would never happen. Apple Inc. is not interested in the iTunes Store being just for mac users. It connects with PC and Mac users worldwide. So unless access to it were only bundled with the Mac iTunes download then I think it is way beyond the scope of the Apple iTunes Store business model. The regular cross-platform iTunes store is not about downloads per se as it is about delivering multimedia for iPod, iPhone and PC or Mac Users worldwide.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:00:32 +0000

@steve: Then laugh away my friend. Then once you’re done laughing, maybe you could do your argument a favor and actually explain yourself. Right now you just sound ignorant.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:41:50 +0000

i laugh at anyone who buys music from the itunes store

however, software would be a very good idea.

By: Eric Ellenberg

Eric Ellenberg — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:43:24 +0000

I speculate Apple may already be working on this, or something like it, for third-party iPhone apps. Since Apple wants iTunes to be the management hub for the iPhone, they have to devise a way to manage iPhone apps in an intuitive, secure way. Of course, I’m assuming Apple is working on an actual SDK for the iPhone…

By: ¿iTunes Store como tienda de software?

¿iTunes Store como tienda de software? — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:07:06 +0000

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:44:04 +0000

I really like this idea too… I wish there was a really good way to search for and download software for the Mac. Version Tracker is okay, but it’s not simple and easy enough to use for most people to be comfortable using.

If iTunes doesn’t come up with something, I could see a third party software vendor coming up with something…

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:49:56 +0000

It’s a good idea which is already implemented and is working quite well through Valve’s own Steam system.

You already have Steam to play games like CounterStrike and some such.
It makes sense that they propose price proposal and free weed ends trials.

What you’re suggesting is a Steam like offer for Software.