“Similar to the iPhone store, the App Store for Mac puts Apple in the position of retailer, taking a 30 percent cut of sales,” Fried reports. ‘”‘It’s something we are looking at,’ Microsoft’s Amanda Lefebvre told Mobilized.”
Fried reports, “In its absence, visitors to the App Store are given prominent options to buy Apple’s rival iWork components–Pages, Keynote and Numbers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: In this case, the late bird gets all the worms.
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“That… is why you fail” -Yoda
‘That… is why you are Fail” – Yogurt
At DAVOS, Switzerland “Devices are going to go and come,” Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International.
The phrase is “Come and Go.” These guys are thinking Backwards!
No wonder they are getting it wrong.
I had worms once
In this case, the MacDailyNews Take should be changed to “In this case, the ANGRY bird gets all the PIGS”
@ a nony mous coward
They’re delicious, aren’t they?
I like, ‘Go & Come’. Sounds sexy.
Microsoft is sooo close to being irrelevant.
@ MDN – I don’t get your comment. What do you mean about “all the worms” ?
I believe that’s a reference to the invertebrates infesting M$’s rotting corpse.
Virus Alert!!
MS needs to get out an iOS optimized version of Office to continue their cash cow. Just a bit lighter in weight, though. As if that’d even be possible!
Well yes, MS will go, others will come.
In Communist Russia, worms get you.
Unfortunately, Apple will “need” Office for the forseeable future because of the thinking of the masses.
Yes, the iPad was a complete failure due to its lack of MS Office. Idiot.
There are a handful of Windows-centric software, that, if they are all brought over to the Mac, will spell the end of Windows. Office is one of them. By all means 60-70% of my company staff need not use a PC if all they need was Office. MSFT is caught between a rock and a hard place.
Not really.
Some people need a productivity suite & others need Office specifically. Everybody has their own circumstances & needs. There are customers who must use M$ Office because of clients, customers or employers.
I use Pages a lot, Keynote on occasion and Numbers rarely. I have a copy of Office (Black Friday deal on Amazon-very cheap), that is not installed but is on call, if needed. Not everyone is so lucky.
I have said this before… While iWork is great it simply isn’t a replacement for office. Try opening a file sent to you, modifying it and then saving it. You have to jump through ridiculous hoops. You used to be able to do this with iWork 06 but the functionality has been gone for a while. Keynote is awesome but still, you do something amazing and then have to explain how awesome it was before you converted it to PowerPoint for anyone else to see. MDN needs to get their head out of their ass if they think every Apple product just works. iWork is an example of close but just not close enough to live with every day. Office 2011 works awesome.
If Microsoft were smart (I said if), they would get Office into the Mac App store ASAP, before free options like Open Office and other cheaper applications get an even stronger foothold in those areas. If Microsoft doesn’t keep its products in the big marketplaces (and the App store is likely to be one, just as the iTunes App store was), they’ll lose relevance even faster.
If they have an opportunity for more sales, even if it is on someone else’s website, they need to move forward and sieze it.
“Devices are going to go and come”
Mine did that once. What a mess.
Three days ago I thought my MobileMe mail was hacked. Nope, it was all the sales (of my free app) on the App Store.
MS better get in faster or feral programmers like me will eat their lunch.
While Microsoft sits around and ponders, the world passes it by. Any (and I mean every because that’s what happened) company with any interest in raising it’s profile, advancing it’s technology and making money delivered apps for the iPhone. Subsequent versions of iOS allowed testing, extension, adjustment and expansion of well received apps. When the iPad debuted, companies that had poured resources into the iOS were rewarded with a rocket ride on a new platform that is again changing the nature of mobile computing.
Where is the worlds largest software company? Sitting on the sidelines with it’s thumb up it’s ass, wondering whether to board the train that left the station 3 and a half years ago.
@@cubert
He never said that…so why are you calling him an idiot?
Selling Mac Office via the AppStore would probably increase sales so those 30% would probably be worth it.