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RE: steam
By Tony Swash on 2/8/2011 9:26:41 AM , Rating: 2
Which they should lose because if Windows can't come with IE preinstalled without offering another choice than Apple has no right to do that with an app store. And neither should any OS provider. I want a ballot page of at least the top 5 app stores that I can chose to install. Really I think the best option is not allow any app stores to be installed by default and that the consumer should chose which one they'd like to use. This isn't like a browser that is pretty much required to get another browser like on windows. (Yes I know you can FTP to get a browser downloaded.)

So what other Mac App stores would appear on this ballot paper of yours - cos I can't think of any.

There is a nothing to stop anyone setting up an alternative Mac App store of their own, but no one will because it would not be able to offer a single advantage over the Apple Mac App Store.

The IE ballot was probably one of the last shots in an old, old battle that is now all but irrelevant. For while, back when it did stuff that counted, Microsoft maneuvered very adroitly to exploit it's old monopoly of the desktop to crush Netscape (who hardly put up a fight) and make IE the internet browser standard. And then absurdly they forgot about it. Microsoft made many enemies and put much effort into winning a position of browser domination without a clue as to what to do with such an advantage, they were just motivated by fear that their precious Windows monopoly would be undermined. Now all that is irrelevant and none of it matters anymore. Who cares about IE, or for matter Windows, anymore - no one.

