{"id":1203,"date":"2011-05-19T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2011-05-19T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T09:33:28","slug":"we-need-an-open-simpleapp-store-built-into-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2011\/05\/19\/we-need-an-open-simpleapp-store-built-into-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"We need an open, simpleapp store built into windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most people selling software, I occasionally get people who say the download link is broken (it isn’t) or the file didn’t download properly (it did) or that it’s the wrong version for their O\/S (maybe, but they bought the wrong thing in that case) or they lost the file they downloaded etc etc…<\/p>\n

Obviously this sort of stuff is fixed by ‘client’ app stores such as impulse or steam. the problem is, those stores are run by third parties which<\/p>\n

1) Take a cut of the sales<\/p>\n

2) Retain all the customer details and never share them with you<\/p>\n

3) Don’t accept all products for sale, so act as gatekeepers.<\/p>\n

Ideally, windows would have a built-in bare-bones app-store. Not a microsoft store where you pay microsoft, but some system whereby you could pay anyone, and they could trivially build a back end system to provide you with the file. Maybe the app-store simply acts as a front end web browser client to your existing BMTMicro \/ paypal \/ plimus store.<\/p>\n

Given all the shovelware crap that windows ships with anyway (photo editing, movie making, a calculator, a paint program, games…) it seems crazy that something people do all the time (buy stuff online) has virtually zero API support built into the O\/S.<\/p>\n

Time for another ‘next-game clue’:<\/p>\n

clue#6<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like most people selling software, I occasionally get people who say the download link is broken (it isn’t) or the file didn’t download properly (it did) or that it’s the wrong version for their O\/S (maybe, but they bought the wrong thing in that case) or they lost the file they downloaded etc etc… Obviously<\/p>\n

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