Oct 25 2010
Bodega: The Mac Apps Store for the rest of us
If you were watching the “Back to the Mac” presentation by Steve Jobs1last week, you heard about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and the announcement of a Mac Apps Store. Jobs suggested that people like the iPhone Apps Store and how it’s so easy to find new software and buy it all from one place. And he’s right.
But what people don’t like is Apple restricting their access to the applications with the functions they want and refusing developers who don’t create applications that are in keeping with what Apple wants for its hardware.
People might want an application store for Macs, but they may not like Apple being the go-between in their search.
The funny thing is, we’ve had an Macintosh applications store available to us for some time. It’s called Bodega and it has been brought to you by Fresh Code. Bodega offers a great selection of applications and, when you choose to make your purchase, you’re directed right back to the developer who created it. All of your application (all of them, not just the ones purchased through Bodega) are listed in the Applications section of Bodega from which you can see if you have any updates to apply—you can even revisit your receipts and serial numbers there.
This free application serves to fill the need for a Mac Apps Store and it’s available for free right now for Snow Leopard.
- if you missed it, here is it really fast [↩]
Is there anything wrong with a developer updating their software so soon after launch? Of course not. It’s much worse for them to withhold a valuable update from their users, I think.