Amazon Challenges Apple With Mac App Store

Posted by timothy on Friday May 27, 2011 @12:12AM from the it's-a-wide-river dept.

CWmike writes "Amazon launched a Mac-specific application download store on Thursday that will compete with Apple's nearly five-month-old Mac App Store. The new subsection of Amazon's massive online store, dubbed 'Mac Software Downloads,' kicked off quietly Thursday. Amazon has long offered software downloads for both Windows and Mac customers, but this was the first time that the company called out its Mac-centric 'store.' The retailer, however, apparently did not want to goad Apple into another legal battle by mimicking its rival's 'App Store' moniker: The two companies are already in court over Amazon's 'Appstore for Android,' which Apple claims violates its trademark. Unlike the Mac App Store, which Apple opened in early January, Amazon's includes the popular Office for Mac line from Microsoft."

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This is doomed to failure by TimHunter · 2011-05-27 00:21 · Score: -1, Flamebait

This is doomed to failure right out of the gate. It's not blessed by Saint Jobs, so no true Apple fanboi will buy from it. If the fanbois won't use it, who will? Only heterosexual blue-collar Mac users with real jobs. AND THERE AREN'T ANY OF THOSE.
So give up, Jeff. It's money down a rat hole.