App Store

Apple are changing computing forever. The concept of someone doing testing on Apps before they are published is totally new and is being copied by others e.g.) Google. This ensures that users get good quality Apps and that their hardware performs well. This is a major change in software development. The App Store from Apple and copies e.g.) Google Apps also give a great marketplace to software developers and allow us to get directly to the customer in a way that was not possible previously! As the markets increase in size and get more sophisticated they will have to evolve to have more advanced categorisation. At the moment even Apple's App Store has a very basic text search which must evolve into something more structured. The investment in the App Store must be substantial, lets hope that this model can be feasible for Apple and others to ensure we all get high quality Apps for the long-term.