With the App Store, Apple changed everything

Sorry, but why is this drivel on lxer? Not a single mention of Linux. There are other sites to read blind odes to apple cr@pware. Yet again, this is about popularity rather than innovation. The app store brought nothing new and has changed nothing of real importance.

I'm glad you like the app store...but spare me the irrelevant article about a company that does nothing but cr@p on the computing and technology community.

A lame article. Were it a horse, it would have already been shot.

apple is loosly based on bsd, which is a lot like unix which is also what linux is based on. there are many who consider there apple to be linux actually. I consider lineage yet distinct differences where father is unix brother is bsd and apple is the bastard;)

I hope you understand on how many levels what you said makes no sense/is horribly wrong. I'll leave it at that...

With Apple being based on BSD, and WinNT being heavily influenced by VMS, it's just the same war fought by new generals.

And then of course there's IBM....

90's Linux called, it wants its repository back. Apple only introduced the age old repo-model into proprietary software. That is not innovative, that is about friggin time.

There is nothing magical about apps. The vast majority are fairly useless toys. The few that are productivity apps, are useful in a mobile setting, but a far cry from the features a full fledged application carries.

The App store has nothing to do with BYOD. If you can do your job on the tiny screen and with the relatively toy-esque apps on your iPhone, your job doesn't amount to much.

Anyone notice that the author of this piece is Ron Miller ? He does, of course, already know about Linux repositories...

based on my own experience with customers i think this based on the presentation. one of my customers reveled how easy it was to down load apps with ubuntu. the underlying technology shouldn't really matter to the user, but making it easier to use certainly does.

greetings, eMBee.